On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:09:04PM -0400, Roy wrote:
>
> Right now I am only running Arch in a VM but I just cleaned out three 200 GB
> partitions and I will look for a place to install Arch and then I will look
> into packer. How does it differ from pacman?
>
Syntax should be identical. I haven't had a chance to use Arch in
awhile, so you might want to try their wiki--another reason I really
like Arch is the high level of documentation, far better than some
others.
Now IF I remember right--you download it from AUR (don't think it's in
standard repos.) Build it, which should be straightforward.
After that, you can use it to search for packages, it will download them
and build them for you---they're not typical Arch packages, they're
usually tarballs, so it will run through a short build process, ask you
if you want to edit the makefile (I usually just hit n as in no) and
will then do the rest of the work.
As I said, I haven't used Arch seriously in awhile--there may be
something even better now, in the same way that packer is considered the
replacement for yaurt, or whatever the previous thing that checked AUR
was called.
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