Hi, I tried the command (pacman -S reflector curl) error meassage "could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db"
My connection is fine after pinging google.com with 5 packets. Is it a problem with the mirror sites I have set up? I am guessing the word "community.db" suggests something?
Hello from the UK :). Just want to say thanks for uploading great educational tutorials. I have taken a great interest in Arch after viewing your videos. Good Job!!
startx didn't work. Installed xinit, xterm, xorg-server, and a bunch of other random X dependencies. And yet startx or any initialization of X won't work. Tried starting 5 or 6 DE's as well, didn't work. Failed to load modules mach64, vesa, and fbdev. Fatal error: no screens found. So, unless you have a list of X dependencies I didn't include, I have no idea how to get X to start
have you heared of remaster sys for ubuntu? well they have somthing like that for arch now, its called "larch" and i was wondering if you could do a video on how to use that to remaster a system that has gnome on it. me and all my friends will sub for this vid i talk about. "Bless your face"
have you heared of remaster sys for ubuntu? well they have somthing like that for arch now, its called "larch" and i was wondering if you could do a video on how to use that to remaster a system that has gnome on it. me and all my friends will sub for this vid i talk about. "Bless your face"
Thank you so much, you really helped out a lot and allowed me to become familiar with Arch Linux in such a short amount of time. I really appreciate the tutorials you do, stay strong mate :)
@donOWNZ If you would've went to his link in the description (commands...) you would've seen that reflector doesn't exist anymore. Instead, just select all the mirrors that are close to you.
Okay I'm kinda mad right now. For the first forever I was using VESA drivers, then somewhere in a system update Arch installed the shitty open source ATI drivers so now everything stretchs past my screen because the open source drivers hate HDMI. What can I do to force VESA drivers so I can continue on till I can install Catalyst
Not sure if you will see this but. How come you added a user using useradd instead of adduser.. adduser seems simple, as it prompts you as it goes. Was there an advantage to you using useradd? (not sure what some of the dash letter syntax's meant.
I did end up getting xorg to work though. Apparently you have to separately install all of xorg's dependencies now, because just installing only xorg didn't work for me
Could you post the video tutorial on installing lxde DE because I'm having some problems with starting lxde and pcmanfm won't work , i followed the wiki but it didn't really help.
help! when I go to install xorg, it numbers everything it will install with it, and what number you want to install. It says all is default, and I can't type all, only numbers 1-86, but I want to install them all. What do I do?
@thisweekinlinux Couldn't you just bring up rc to find out the mirrors and just ping each one individually...and manually decide the priority based on the ping?
@theif519 crashes as soon as you launch it? odd. do you have gnome-shell installed, or is it trying to load the fallback mode? What sort of error does it give you?
@thisweekinlinux Ah, I got it, whenever I ran /usr/bin/gnome-session it crashed but with GDM installed it boots fine. If I could pin Terminal and Firefox to the dock it'd be fine. Also, I've heard that you can make G3 have the pull-down menu like in G2, how do I do so?
@theif519 There are some extensions to help out with that. google "gnome shell frippery" and the first link should be a pack of extensions you can put on your system that might work out for you.
@theif519 I haven't, sorry. Lots of other things came up between then and now, I've gone through 2-3 different laptops since then, and just haven't had a chance to do it yet. The biggest thing I planned to cover with it was connecting to wireless networks from the CLI, and Linux4unMe did a video on that just a little while back. :)
I get a "error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database) if you're sure a package manager is not already running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck" message.
@jorgebassmaster22 you don't have multiple copies of pacman running, do you? If not, you might try rebooting the computer first. If it still doesn't work, you can try deleting the /var/lib/pacman/db.lck file by running "rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck" as root (be careful, make sure you type that exactly right)
i cant seem to get gnome out of fallback mode. i have done the vbox additions and enabled opengl. do i need to have the nvidia drivers installed on arch within the virtualbox?
I'm really, really impressed how fast you type, no mistakes and how can u remember all those package names... wow. You are also good at teaching. Excellent video.
i need to use the broadcom sta wifi drivers. is it possible to install arch with ethernet and then use a gui to install the drivers and set up the wifi?
@stargate33846 this tutorial is outdated. they've changed some things in the package installation. to get startx working, you now have to install "xorg-xinit"
So... I installed xorg-xinit but now... whenever I try to execute the Xsever with Startx it said that "Daemon startup failed" /etc/x11/xinit/xintrc line 56: exec: xterm: not found
When I do "man reflector" it has no manual , but when I do "man reflector curl" only the manual page for curl comes up. Also, there are a few mirrors and servers that still don't work. I tried replacing their # symbol with a * symbol but that just made it recognize it as an error immediately.
I tried your three part series yesterday and I now have a fully functional Arch Linux Desktop in my VirtualBox. Thanks!!!
But I just wanted to point out that xorg-xinit needed to be installed manually as it is not installed automatically by xorg. Because xorg-xinit is not installed automaticaly, 'startx command not found' was the error that I had received.
Also, when I installed xorg, there were 86 groups, something which I could not see in your video. I installed all to be on the safe side.
@rigvedphate you're absolutely right. When I made this 6 months ago, you didn't have to install it separately. Weird that they would make that change. :/
@rigvedphate Hey dude, how do you solve this problem? Cause I installed xorg-xinit and when I ran 'startx' the screen gets all black and like 3 seconds later, gave me an error.
@rigvedphate I fixed it, I installed xterm as you say, also "xclock" and "twm", and all the xorg groups... Also download and install gnome, but when I run "xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session" it says that there's no such a file or directory there :-S I really don't know what's happening... I run "startx" and It run perfectly, and I also have "xorg-xinit" installed... So I don't understand why is this happening... Hope you help me. Cause I go through Arch wiki, forums and stuff and didn't find anything
@xLjle Have you installed all the packages that are listed in the video? The Arch Beginners' Guide is the best place to start.
The error you got says that the /usr/bin/gnome-session file was not found. Have you checked to make sure that the file actually exists? If it doesn't exist, then your Gnome 3 may not have been setup properly or the gnome system has been changed. Either way, ask on the Arch Forums.
If the file exists, you could try this and see if it helps: startx /usr/bin/gnome-session
Which ATI drivers do you recommend to install, proprietary or the open-source drivers? I have an ATI 5770 card and i'm interested in hardware acceleration for playing High Definition content and games on Wine, so what would be a better choice?
@elduderino951 It's been a long time since I used an ATI card, but I would almost always go for the catalyst/fglrx driver in the past. I don't believe the open source drivers have the 3d acceleration you're probably looking for yet, so that's probably the best option.
Jordan it seems now with a pacman update it asks you what you want to install in that you have to pick at least one of the packages. It installs that with the some other packages its not as much as what you installed and when you run startx it says command not found. Help
@applefanpc I have the same issue. I selected the default option of installing all packages but it returned an error saying that it could not retrieve some files from extra and failed to commit transaction. Using the startx command won't work.
hey man your videos are great i just subscribed! i have one question, i really like the idea of using arch linux to make an os pretty much tailored to my specs but i'm sort of new to linux so would you reccomend installing this in a virtualbox before attempting to install on my hard drive? thanks
I am running this now with Gnome and Compiz. It is a lot faster than Ubuntu for me and it only uses around 300MB of RAM when browsing. Ubuntu does have more to offer straight out of the box though.
@thisweekinlinux Well, now I am writting from Arch Linux! Maybe I've mistaked with a command whe was adding a user or was a problem with a locale, but I rebooted and entered the command again and ii worked. Thank's for the tutorial anyway.. Now I'm figuring out how to setup a russian locale -- don't know how to do that yet. And anothar question -- do you using compiz, or do you recommend to use it?
I've used Compiz before, but I'm not a fan of it in general. It just seems to take up system resources and I don't particularly care for the effects I gain from it. I know a lot of people love it though.
@thisweekinlinux :) Well, already deleted Arch, Ubuntu is more flexible and good designed for me. But anyway I've knew some new things about configuring the system. By the way, Jordan, if I am not mistaking, you said that you're working as a developer. What project are you working for now?
@vjott it has become common practice to pronounce "GNOME" as "nome" (like the garden statue), but officially, since "GNOME" is an acronym, it's pronounced "Guh-nome". That said, feel free to pronounce it however you like. :)
@maximum988 absolutely correct. it's called flashplugin-prerelease, I believe. However, there's also a 10.2.153 version in the "multilib" repository, if you're feeling adventurous. :P
@Drpooper100 No bother at all. I really should have made more of these tutorials, things have just been really hectic (always). wiki.archlinux. org/index. php/KDE should have all you need to get KDE.
Hey first of all... thank you for making this tutorial. I'm new in linux world, and i wanted a basic, and rock solid OS, that's why i choose Arch! Everything went smooth until the startx command! I did everything as you did in your tutorial! When i type startx bash says: command not found! I searched the forums and arch wiki and couldn't fix the problem! So i instaled gnome and gnome sys tools. No error reports!!! I tried xinit command... and again bash says: command not found! Help if you can!
Hehe, my bad... I've done the new, fresh installation and all works as it supposed to work! I guess i skipped a step or two from tutorial... I'm definitely installing it in dual boot with Winblows 7! Can you make a tutorial about that, if you have time... of course! Or you can just write few lines in reply! I would appreciate that! ;)
@necessaznati basically the only difference doing it that way is instead of using the whole drive, you resize the Windows partition (probably easier to do it before loading the Arch disc, with Gparted or something) then install Arch to the unused portion of the drive.
Btw, make sure you defrag your Windows 7 drive before resizing the partition. It shouldn't be an issue, but it could cause you to lose data because of NTFS's fragmentation problems.
Decided to move away from Fedora, as I'm tired of all the release-specific dependencies. Since Arch is a rolling distribution, there shouldn't be such problems with it. However, Arch is noticeably harder to install and getting it up and running compared to Fedora (or maybe I've just used to it and know its ins and outs).
hay man thanks for you doing this video just this video help me do gnome kde and xfce well of course arch wiki but thanks and i hope you carry on this thanks to you.
@thisweekinlinux I tried that, and even used -Q to search for the packages, but it literally cannot find any package mentioned in this video (or others) could it be the mirror I'm requesting these from is bad?
@MetalShreader it very well could be. have you checked your mirrorlist file to make sure you've got good mirrors selected in there? Afterward, try running "sudo pacman -Syy" to update the repos
@thisweekinlinux When I do it on my laptop, I get up to 'startx' then it goes to this blank screen and I have no access to anything on my laptop so I have to force shutdown.
@TheJoshuaPChan I had an issue like that before, and it was due to not having HAL set up, but HAL isn't supposed to be required anymore. Do you have dbus installed and running?
@thisweekinlinux I had dbus installed and running and under deamons in /etc/rc.conf and no I didn't have HAL because it was never mentioned in the ArchWiki.
@TheJoshuaPChan Do you have an empty .xinitrc file in your home directory? Just found this on the Arch Wiki:
"Note: If you just installed Xorg, there is an empty .xinitrc file in your $HOME that you need to either delete or edit in order for X to start properly. If you do not do this X will show a blank screen with what appears to be no errors in your Xorg.0.log. Simply deleting it will get it running with a default X environment."
@thisweekinlinux As I said. I follow all the instructions in the ArchWiki and I always come up to 'startx' and it fails on me. I did configure the .xinit file. If I was missing something that isn't mentioned on the ArchWiki, please inform me about it. I was setting up a KDE desktop, if that helps you find my problem.
I cant get reflector to work. It creats a file with 2 lines in it: # 2011-02-15 20:44 # generated by reflector
but no mirrors. Also, when i type man reflector the -c switch isn't mentioned like in your video. Mirrorlist file exists and works. What am I doing wrong?
@thisweekinlinux I just found out it doesnt matter what switches I use, -r -o -DonaldDuck, it takes ½-1 sec and then I'm back at the prompt with a file with 1-3 lines in it. It's like reflector isnt doing anything at all.
@thisweekinlinux Havent installed a DE yet and browsed, but rankmirror command works so I have internet access. It's just reflector that seems completely dead.
@bonefetish1 try this dude, 'reflector -l 5 -r -o /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist' i was getting the same problem with the first command, it was only writing 2lines in the mirrorlist
great job, i installed it on my VM to test it - awesome! i have a QUERTZ(ger) keyboard layout - just use km after loggin (first video) to choose your keyboardlayout (you forgot it - but i hope most of the people who watch your videos can read)
will you do some video or text tutorial on partitioning hdds? i need a win7 partition on my computer for my universitiy stuff but i want to install arch as well!
Do you know how to install openbox, and tint2 and such window managers instead of a full on DE???? I ned so much help on this. :o. Arch beginners guide/forums don't offer much help in INSTALLING and making it work.
@tekuracerx If i can help out, follow the tutorial of this video up until he installs the video driver. Then at the bottom of the Beginner's guide tutorial, you will see a link for Window Managers which will take you to a page with all WM's. click on openbox and follow the tutorial there. Remember that you need to add a user before installing openbox because you need to make a directory and move certain files.
One issue though I was wondering if someone could help me with: My display in gnome seems to be locked at 800x600, and there's a pink box in the monitor settings page in gnome which says "Monitor=Unknown". I am using VM-virtual box.
Please help, I've researched this and can't figure out what's going on.
@aptapathy you need to install the Virtualbox Additions. There's a page on their wiki about it, but I'm not sure if it's been updated yet for the newer version of Virtualbox.
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Hi, I tried the command (pacman -S reflector curl) error meassage "could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db"
My connection is fine after pinging google.com with 5 packets. Is it a problem with the mirror sites I have set up? I am guessing the word "community.db" suggests something?
Your advice would be appreciated
Thank you
iamoneface 1 day ago
Hello from the UK :). Just want to say thanks for uploading great educational tutorials. I have taken a great interest in Arch after viewing your videos. Good Job!!
iamoneface 1 day ago
I have a question: Do I have to install xorg, if I want to use Openbox?
TheNordbjerg 3 days ago
When X FINALLY started up, I played Celebration by Kool and the Gang. Serious.
TheBigNibble 6 days ago
Can you do a tutorial on installing Slackware 13.37? In VirtualBox? Please? Great tutorial!
TheBigNibble 6 days ago
this is in my opinion a relative short video on installing arch :p
kjah11 3 weeks ago
will you be remaking these tutorials since the arch install has changed somewhat?
GrifDemonLordofHFH 1 month ago
The best tutorial ever..
rayyanputra 1 month ago
if i ever would install arch linux,
my last words on my death-bed will be
I....installed....ARCH!
*dies*
kjah11 2 months ago 4
@kjah11 Hahah..lol..=p
rayyanputra 1 month ago
startx didn't work. Installed xinit, xterm, xorg-server, and a bunch of other random X dependencies. And yet startx or any initialization of X won't work. Tried starting 5 or 6 DE's as well, didn't work. Failed to load modules mach64, vesa, and fbdev. Fatal error: no screens found. So, unless you have a list of X dependencies I didn't include, I have no idea how to get X to start
tsugaru24 2 months ago 2
You actually just needed to uncomment multilib
seed419 2 months ago
Thanks so much for this video dude. Very helpful! You got me up and running.
seed419 2 months ago
when i type ifconfig
it says command not found ?
i install arch on virtualbox .. i don't know what is the problem ?
i follow steps exactly .. help me because i want to install arch on my desktop
great video thank u
meraed818 3 months ago
Followed the tutorial to the letter, but when I try "startx", I just get "-bash: startx: command not found"
Running VirtualBox 4.1 with guest additions installed.
FlawedSpirit 4 months ago
Reflector is pretty cool. Didn't know about that! Cheers
22ness0hayden 4 months ago
thank u alot!
ne9r 4 months ago
What is your WPM?
NightspiritHacker 4 months ago
lol i tried "ping 127.0.0.1"
and it goes on forever .. =_=
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@thisweekinlinux HELP ME please... when I type startx it says: startx command not found... what shall I do ???
TheUnclepecos 5 months ago
is it normal for reflector to be taking longer than 10 minutes
iPodAppsWeekly 5 months ago
have you heared of remaster sys for ubuntu? well they have somthing like that for arch now, its called "larch" and i was wondering if you could do a video on how to use that to remaster a system that has gnome on it. me and all my friends will sub for this vid i talk about. "Bless your face"
link: larch.berlios.de
nickthetechguy1 5 months ago
have you heared of remaster sys for ubuntu? well they have somthing like that for arch now, its called "larch" and i was wondering if you could do a video on how to use that to remaster a system that has gnome on it. me and all my friends will sub for this vid i talk about. "Bless your face"
link: larch.de
nickthetechguy1 5 months ago
Thank you so much, you really helped out a lot and allowed me to become familiar with Arch Linux in such a short amount of time. I really appreciate the tutorials you do, stay strong mate :)
0xAE9 5 months ago
Flash is a pain in the Linux a** - Bless Your Face!
yenomeerf 5 months ago
Stiiiill waiting for the laptop tutorial ;)
Robbi159 5 months ago
To startx you have to prior install:
pacman -S xorg-xinit
pacman -S xterm
otherwise you gonna get startx: command not found
DrPaneas 5 months ago
Could you make a video for wmii/dwm as a stand-alone window manager.
Also that laptop networking one... :)
Nice video.
UNIXMusicify 6 months ago
Thanks very much! You helped me a lot. The best thing of the video is how you explain, your stupid but funny jokes (setting the password)...
icedgoal 6 months ago
Pulseaudio FTL.
Deliciousfruit233 6 months ago
I can't get reflector to work. It won't show any mirrors
donOWNZ 7 months ago
@donOWNZ If you would've went to his link in the description (commands...) you would've seen that reflector doesn't exist anymore. Instead, just select all the mirrors that are close to you.
MisterJ4512 6 months ago
When I try "startx" I get the error "startx: command not found"
vDubrivation 7 months ago
@vDubrivation It doesn't matter. Just install a desktop enviroment. Fuck startx.
MisterJ4512 6 months ago
Okay I'm kinda mad right now. For the first forever I was using VESA drivers, then somewhere in a system update Arch installed the shitty open source ATI drivers so now everything stretchs past my screen because the open source drivers hate HDMI. What can I do to force VESA drivers so I can continue on till I can install Catalyst
ForeverWiked 7 months ago
Not sure if you will see this but. How come you added a user using useradd instead of adduser.. adduser seems simple, as it prompts you as it goes. Was there an advantage to you using useradd? (not sure what some of the dash letter syntax's meant.
randomperson416 7 months ago
what do you do if pacman doesen't work and you didn't install sudo?
LoveBarthalamewPls 7 months ago
@LoveBarthalamewPls you should have set up a root password during the installation. if you're logged in as root, you should be able to run pacman.
thisweekinlinux 7 months ago
@thisweekinlinux No, pacman says "invalid operation"
LoveBarthalamewPls 7 months ago
@LoveBarthalamewPls
su
enter the root password
do all your root-esc stuff
74ryanwolf 7 months ago
I did end up getting xorg to work though. Apparently you have to separately install all of xorg's dependencies now, because just installing only xorg didn't work for me
milkinunderpantss 7 months ago
this is the output of 'pacman -Syy' after adding multilib to pacman.conf....... error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db'
Now what?
mirrorlist is up to date
milkinunderpantss 7 months ago
@milkinunderpantss Try using a different mirror. Maybe your current mirror doesn't have a multilib repo.
Deliciousfruit233 7 months ago
Yes, reflector is also not working for me, and it is driving me crazy.
FloobenShnooben 8 months ago
reflector isn't working, or at least it isn't piping the mirrors to mirrorlist for me
jshzigler 8 months ago
Could you post the video tutorial on installing lxde DE because I'm having some problems with starting lxde and pcmanfm won't work , i followed the wiki but it didn't really help.
Excellent video!!
maryn728 8 months ago
What's the name of that window manager that Xorg uses when you start X without installing anything else?
Deliciousfruit233 8 months ago
I installed xorg, everything seemed to go fine, but i cant start it. startx wont work. what could be wrong? it says command not found
Sassy4221 8 months ago
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raseori 8 months ago
help! when I go to install xorg, it numbers everything it will install with it, and what number you want to install. It says all is default, and I can't type all, only numbers 1-86, but I want to install them all. What do I do?
glowcode 8 months ago
@glowcode Just hit enter (without typing anything) and it should install all. :)
Your videos are really helpful, thisweekonlinux! :)
RainSkG 8 months ago
@RainSkG Thanks very much!
thisweekinlinux 8 months ago
@RainSkG I still press enter (I dont press anything else) and nothing happens, it doesnt work :\
Kagda96 4 months ago
@glowcode I believe @RainSkG is correct. :)
thisweekinlinux 8 months ago
@thisweekinlinux I did try this, and even though it says the total download size is 0MB, it still did it. thank you!
glowcode 8 months ago
@thisweekinlinux Couldn't you just bring up rc to find out the mirrors and just ping each one individually...and manually decide the priority based on the ping?
Tarantula604 8 months ago
This is odd. Reflector is returning an empty file. Even if I do reflector -a.
EmptyParad0x 8 months ago
You have very much inspired me to use arch linux over ubuntu on my laptop :O im going to try it out tonight downloading now
MrSadin56 8 months ago
Pacman says no repositories configured, yet my mirrorlist is fine.
XxanthonykanexX 9 months ago
@XxanthonykanexX
Fixed it, my mirrorlist etc was out of date.
XxanthonykanexX 9 months ago
GNOME3 crashes as soon as I launch it... Should I use another interface?
theif519 9 months ago
@theif519 crashes as soon as you launch it? odd. do you have gnome-shell installed, or is it trying to load the fallback mode? What sort of error does it give you?
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
@thisweekinlinux Ah, I got it, whenever I ran /usr/bin/gnome-session it crashed but with GDM installed it boots fine. If I could pin Terminal and Firefox to the dock it'd be fine. Also, I've heard that you can make G3 have the pull-down menu like in G2, how do I do so?
theif519 9 months ago
@theif519 There are some extensions to help out with that. google "gnome shell frippery" and the first link should be a pack of extensions you can put on your system that might work out for you.
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
You said you'd do another tutorial for Laptops... Did you post it yet?
theif519 9 months ago
@theif519 I haven't, sorry. Lots of other things came up between then and now, I've gone through 2-3 different laptops since then, and just haven't had a chance to do it yet. The biggest thing I planned to cover with it was connecting to wireless networks from the CLI, and Linux4unMe did a video on that just a little while back. :)
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
I get a "error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database) if you're sure a package manager is not already running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck" message.
Any suggestions?
jorgebassmaster22 9 months ago
@jorgebassmaster22 you don't have multiple copies of pacman running, do you? If not, you might try rebooting the computer first. If it still doesn't work, you can try deleting the /var/lib/pacman/db.lck file by running "rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck" as root (be careful, make sure you type that exactly right)
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
When i run startx it does that old GUI but its frozen, help?
WocketSpice 9 months ago
i cant seem to get gnome out of fallback mode. i have done the vbox additions and enabled opengl. do i need to have the nvidia drivers installed on arch within the virtualbox?
burtonrider316 9 months ago
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lol my mom is goin to by us an abunta this week im so excited,
heaheaheaa 9 months ago
So when is that tutorial on the laptop version of Arch installation coming?
MuhammadVonRaven 9 months ago 17
If I install Gnome now using:
# pacman -Syu
# pacman -S gnome
# pacman -S gnome-extra
will it install Gnome 3.0-Shell or Gnome 2.xx ?
I read that Gnome 3.0-shell is in Extra now, or am I wrong? Since you use ArchLinux, did you upgrade to Gnome 3/shell ?
0xNEVVG3N 9 months ago
@0xNEVVG3N it will install Gnome 3, at least. Not sure if it installs Shell on top of it by default now or not. I think it does.
I do have Gnome 3/Shell on my Arch LInux desktop, yes.
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
@thisweekinlinux Can I get GNOME2.x still instead of GNOME3? If so, I might consider Arch Linux over Slackware.
theif519 9 months ago
I'm really, really impressed how fast you type, no mistakes and how can u remember all those package names... wow. You are also good at teaching. Excellent video.
ubunterias 9 months ago 29
@ubunterias thank you. :)
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
@ubunterias use TAB to finish automatically the name!
xfrancesco10x 5 months ago
i need to use the broadcom sta wifi drivers. is it possible to install arch with ethernet and then use a gui to install the drivers and set up the wifi?
brazzersadmin 9 months ago
@brazzersadmin that's absolutely possible, yes.
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
when i try startx, i get command not found. i have fallowed your tutorial from part 1 word by word, 64bit, virtualbox
stargate33846 9 months ago
@stargate33846 this tutorial is outdated. they've changed some things in the package installation. to get startx working, you now have to install "xorg-xinit"
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
@thisweekinlinux yeah thats ok, i figured it out later on anyway. thx though
stargate33846 9 months ago
Where is the LXDE tut
snipesre 9 months ago
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patq911 9 months ago
Forget the rest, this time Gnome won't run because of "Vboxvideo" module does not exist.
theif519 9 months ago
@theif519 did you install the vbox additions? there's a wiki page on the Arch site about it, if I remember correctly.
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
So... I installed xorg-xinit but now... whenever I try to execute the Xsever with Startx it said that "Daemon startup failed" /etc/x11/xinit/xintrc line 56: exec: xterm: not found
theif519 9 months ago
@theif519 Just installl "xterm", type "pacman -S xterm" at least, I solve it this way... Equally with another errores like "twm" "xclock".
xLjle 9 months ago
When I try to execute xorg with the "Startx" command it won't let me do anything :( It says the command is not found, even after installing it.
theif519 9 months ago
When I do "man reflector" it has no manual , but when I do "man reflector curl" only the manual page for curl comes up. Also, there are a few mirrors and servers that still don't work. I tried replacing their # symbol with a * symbol but that just made it recognize it as an error immediately.
theif519 9 months ago
Hi,
I tried your three part series yesterday and I now have a fully functional Arch Linux Desktop in my VirtualBox. Thanks!!!
But I just wanted to point out that xorg-xinit needed to be installed manually as it is not installed automatically by xorg. Because xorg-xinit is not installed automaticaly, 'startx command not found' was the error that I had received.
Also, when I installed xorg, there were 86 groups, something which I could not see in your video. I installed all to be on the safe side.
rigvedphate 10 months ago
@rigvedphate you're absolutely right. When I made this 6 months ago, you didn't have to install it separately. Weird that they would make that change. :/
thisweekinlinux 10 months ago
@rigvedphate Hey dude, how do you solve this problem? Cause I installed xorg-xinit and when I ran 'startx' the screen gets all black and like 3 seconds later, gave me an error.
xLjle 9 months ago
@xLjle What is the error that you get?
I solved my problem by searching the Arch Forums.
Just make sure that you have xterm also installed
And to be on the safe side, I had installed all the groups under xorg also.
rigvedphate 9 months ago
@rigvedphate I fixed it, I installed xterm as you say, also "xclock" and "twm", and all the xorg groups... Also download and install gnome, but when I run "xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session" it says that there's no such a file or directory there :-S I really don't know what's happening... I run "startx" and It run perfectly, and I also have "xorg-xinit" installed... So I don't understand why is this happening... Hope you help me. Cause I go through Arch wiki, forums and stuff and didn't find anything
xLjle 9 months ago
@xLjle Have you installed all the packages that are listed in the video? The Arch Beginners' Guide is the best place to start.
The error you got says that the /usr/bin/gnome-session file was not found. Have you checked to make sure that the file actually exists? If it doesn't exist, then your Gnome 3 may not have been setup properly or the gnome system has been changed. Either way, ask on the Arch Forums.
If the file exists, you could try this and see if it helps: startx /usr/bin/gnome-session
rigvedphate 9 months ago
i get reflector not found in sync db
xXShadowStorm9Xx 10 months ago
@xXShadowStorm9Xx sorry, reflector has been retired, as far as I know, along with a bunch of other apps (powerpill, bauerbill at least)
thisweekinlinux 10 months ago
@thisweekinlinux reflector hasn't been retired. New version May 3rd.
eldersprig 10 months ago
@eldersprig argh, see what happens when you stop paying attention for a couple of days? :P
thisweekinlinux 10 months ago
Hello Jordan,
Which ATI drivers do you recommend to install, proprietary or the open-source drivers? I have an ATI 5770 card and i'm interested in hardware acceleration for playing High Definition content and games on Wine, so what would be a better choice?
elduderino951 10 months ago
@elduderino951 It's been a long time since I used an ATI card, but I would almost always go for the catalyst/fglrx driver in the past. I don't believe the open source drivers have the 3d acceleration you're probably looking for yet, so that's probably the best option.
thisweekinlinux 10 months ago
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elduderino951 10 months ago
@thisweekinlinux Thanks, it works really well now.
elduderino951 10 months ago
Oh wait it turns out you need to install gdm now
iSrosh128 10 months ago
The gnome session doesn't open once I turn on the computer what do I please respond
iSrosh128 10 months ago
Which video is the one for wireless and laptops?
TheMikebuntu 10 months ago
Jordan it seems now with a pacman update it asks you what you want to install in that you have to pick at least one of the packages. It installs that with the some other packages its not as much as what you installed and when you run startx it says command not found. Help
applefanpc 10 months ago
@applefanpc I ended up copying the packages from your video. It took ages though
applefanpc 10 months ago
@applefanpc I have the same issue. I selected the default option of installing all packages but it returned an error saying that it could not retrieve some files from extra and failed to commit transaction. Using the startx command won't work.
constancenoring 10 months ago
hey man your videos are great i just subscribed! i have one question, i really like the idea of using arch linux to make an os pretty much tailored to my specs but i'm sort of new to linux so would you reccomend installing this in a virtualbox before attempting to install on my hard drive? thanks
-Jacob
jacobsmolik1 10 months ago
@jacobsmolik1 I would definitely recommend trying it in a virtualbox first, just to make sure you're familiar and comfortable with the process.
thisweekinlinux 10 months ago
BOOOOO! ADD KDE!!~
XAlienByteX 10 months ago
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@XAlienByteX lawl heheh
stopthrm 10 months ago
I am running this now with Gnome and Compiz. It is a lot faster than Ubuntu for me and it only uses around 300MB of RAM when browsing. Ubuntu does have more to offer straight out of the box though.
danielkraak 10 months ago
Well I have a problem entering into user which I've created, when tying to do
su r(name of my user) it shows only: Not a directory.
rulet357 10 months ago
@rulet357 what command did you use to create the user? It's possible the /bin/bash part at the end got left off or typed in incorrectly.
thisweekinlinux 10 months ago
@thisweekinlinux Well, now I am writting from Arch Linux! Maybe I've mistaked with a command whe was adding a user or was a problem with a locale, but I rebooted and entered the command again and ii worked. Thank's for the tutorial anyway.. Now I'm figuring out how to setup a russian locale -- don't know how to do that yet. And anothar question -- do you using compiz, or do you recommend to use it?
rulet357 10 months ago
@rulet357 congrats!
I've used Compiz before, but I'm not a fan of it in general. It just seems to take up system resources and I don't particularly care for the effects I gain from it. I know a lot of people love it though.
thisweekinlinux 10 months ago
@thisweekinlinux :) Well, already deleted Arch, Ubuntu is more flexible and good designed for me. But anyway I've knew some new things about configuring the system. By the way, Jordan, if I am not mistaking, you said that you're working as a developer. What project are you working for now?
rulet357 10 months ago
@rulet357 eh, to each his own. I consider Arch more flexible for me.
I work for the state of Kentucky doing website design.
thisweekinlinux 10 months ago
Isn't the 'G' in GNOME silent?
vjott 11 months ago
@vjott it has become common practice to pronounce "GNOME" as "nome" (like the garden statue), but officially, since "GNOME" is an acronym, it's pronounced "Guh-nome". That said, feel free to pronounce it however you like. :)
thisweekinlinux 11 months ago
Uh I think the "reflector" package has been removed from the repos
maximum988 11 months ago
@maximum988 yup, just a couple of days ago. the backend (perl-xyne-arch?) has been abandoned, so all the things that depend on it are gone now.
thisweekinlinux 11 months ago
@thisweekinlinux ok yeah I just stumbled across that on the wiki when I got your reply.
maximum988 11 months ago
So if you don't install 64bit flash from the repos where do you get it from? the aur?
maximum988 11 months ago
@maximum988 absolutely correct. it's called flashplugin-prerelease, I believe. However, there's also a 10.2.153 version in the "multilib" repository, if you're feeling adventurous. :P
I'm running aur/flashplugin-prerelease 10.3.162.29-2
thisweekinlinux 11 months ago
@thisweekinlinux Ok. thank you
maximum988 11 months ago
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maximum988 11 months ago
Hey just wondering how would I install KDE on Arch? Sorry I don't mean to bother you.
Drpooper100 11 months ago
@Drpooper100 No bother at all. I really should have made more of these tutorials, things have just been really hectic (always). wiki.archlinux. org/index. php/KDE should have all you need to get KDE.
thisweekinlinux 11 months ago
@thisweekinlinux Thanks!
Drpooper100 11 months ago
I just noticed while doing a fresh install of Arch that some of the things here seem to be already a bit outdated, is amazing how fast things move...
chrnoc 11 months ago
Hey first of all... thank you for making this tutorial. I'm new in linux world, and i wanted a basic, and rock solid OS, that's why i choose Arch! Everything went smooth until the startx command! I did everything as you did in your tutorial! When i type startx bash says: command not found! I searched the forums and arch wiki and couldn't fix the problem! So i instaled gnome and gnome sys tools. No error reports!!! I tried xinit command... and again bash says: command not found! Help if you can!
necessaznati 11 months ago
@necessaznati were you running it as root, or as a user?
thisweekinlinux 11 months ago
@thisweekinlinux
First as a root, and when that didn't work i tried as a user... without success!
necessaznati 11 months ago
@thisweekinlinux
Hehe, my bad... I've done the new, fresh installation and all works as it supposed to work! I guess i skipped a step or two from tutorial... I'm definitely installing it in dual boot with Winblows 7! Can you make a tutorial about that, if you have time... of course! Or you can just write few lines in reply! I would appreciate that! ;)
Keep up the good work!
necessaznati 11 months ago
@necessaznati basically the only difference doing it that way is instead of using the whole drive, you resize the Windows partition (probably easier to do it before loading the Arch disc, with Gparted or something) then install Arch to the unused portion of the drive.
Btw, make sure you defrag your Windows 7 drive before resizing the partition. It shouldn't be an issue, but it could cause you to lose data because of NTFS's fragmentation problems.
thisweekinlinux 11 months ago
@thisweekinlinux
Thank you... You were very helpful. I'll give it a try! ;)
necessaznati 11 months ago
Decided to move away from Fedora, as I'm tired of all the release-specific dependencies. Since Arch is a rolling distribution, there shouldn't be such problems with it. However, Arch is noticeably harder to install and getting it up and running compared to Fedora (or maybe I've just used to it and know its ins and outs).
Currently installing gnome-extra.
Reloaded211 11 months ago
@Reloaded211 Arch can be a bit daunting the first time you set it up, but once you've gone through the process, it's really not that bad to do again.
thisweekinlinux 11 months ago
hay man thanks for you doing this video just this video help me do gnome kde and xfce well of course arch wiki but thanks and i hope you carry on this thanks to you.
2111thekiller 11 months ago
every time I type pacman -S package_name_here it says it can't find it in sync db. Any suggestions?
MetalShreader 1 year ago
@MetalShreader might double check the package name by typing "pacman -Ss package_name_here" ?
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux I tried that, and even used -Q to search for the packages, but it literally cannot find any package mentioned in this video (or others) could it be the mirror I'm requesting these from is bad?
MetalShreader 1 year ago
@MetalShreader it very well could be. have you checked your mirrorlist file to make sure you've got good mirrors selected in there? Afterward, try running "sudo pacman -Syy" to update the repos
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux tried un-commenting the software repos, and it works! thanks for the help
MetalShreader 1 year ago
@ZnaxQue Lol don't worry, It's alright. :) :P
TheJoshuaPChan 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux When I do it on my laptop, I get up to 'startx' then it goes to this blank screen and I have no access to anything on my laptop so I have to force shutdown.
TheJoshuaPChan 1 year ago
@TheJoshuaPChan I had an issue like that before, and it was due to not having HAL set up, but HAL isn't supposed to be required anymore. Do you have dbus installed and running?
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux I had dbus installed and running and under deamons in /etc/rc.conf and no I didn't have HAL because it was never mentioned in the ArchWiki.
TheJoshuaPChan 1 year ago
@TheJoshuaPChan Do you have an empty .xinitrc file in your home directory? Just found this on the Arch Wiki:
"Note: If you just installed Xorg, there is an empty .xinitrc file in your $HOME that you need to either delete or edit in order for X to start properly. If you do not do this X will show a blank screen with what appears to be no errors in your Xorg.0.log. Simply deleting it will get it running with a default X environment."
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux As I said. I follow all the instructions in the ArchWiki and I always come up to 'startx' and it fails on me. I did configure the .xinit file. If I was missing something that isn't mentioned on the ArchWiki, please inform me about it. I was setting up a KDE desktop, if that helps you find my problem.
TheJoshuaPChan 1 year ago
I cant get reflector to work. It creats a file with 2 lines in it: # 2011-02-15 20:44 # generated by reflector
but no mirrors. Also, when i type man reflector the -c switch isn't mentioned like in your video. Mirrorlist file exists and works. What am I doing wrong?
bonefetish1 1 year ago
@bonefetish1 have you tried doing it without the -c switch? That just tells it which country to pull mirrors from.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Yes I have, there's a third line btw except the ones I already mentioned: # ranked by rankmirrors. Annoying, annoying.
bonefetish1 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux I just found out it doesnt matter what switches I use, -r -o -DonaldDuck, it takes ½-1 sec and then I'm back at the prompt with a file with 1-3 lines in it. It's like reflector isnt doing anything at all.
bonefetish1 1 year ago
@bonefetish1 curious. are you able to browse the web? (sorry, have to ask)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Havent installed a DE yet and browsed, but rankmirror command works so I have internet access. It's just reflector that seems completely dead.
bonefetish1 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Its doing the same thing to me too.
kogo50 1 year ago
@bonefetish1 try this dude, 'reflector -l 5 -r -o /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist' i was getting the same problem with the first command, it was only writing 2lines in the mirrorlist
dynetrax 1 year ago
great job, i installed it on my VM to test it - awesome! i have a QUERTZ(ger) keyboard layout - just use km after loggin (first video) to choose your keyboardlayout (you forgot it - but i hope most of the people who watch your videos can read)
will you do some video or text tutorial on partitioning hdds? i need a win7 partition on my computer for my universitiy stuff but i want to install arch as well!
go on like this watchin your video every week
greetings from snowy austria
konsu89 1 year ago
@konsu89 I've never done a video on partitioning with Windows in mind. Perhaps at some point in the future. :)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
Do you know how to install openbox, and tint2 and such window managers instead of a full on DE???? I ned so much help on this. :o. Arch beginners guide/forums don't offer much help in INSTALLING and making it work.
tekuracerx 1 year ago
@tekuracerx I haven't tried installing those yet, but I plan to learn at some point.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@tekuracerx If i can help out, follow the tutorial of this video up until he installs the video driver. Then at the bottom of the Beginner's guide tutorial, you will see a link for Window Managers which will take you to a page with all WM's. click on openbox and follow the tutorial there. Remember that you need to add a user before installing openbox because you need to make a directory and move certain files.
Juilkca 1 year ago
Excellent video, thank you!
One issue though I was wondering if someone could help me with: My display in gnome seems to be locked at 800x600, and there's a pink box in the monitor settings page in gnome which says "Monitor=Unknown". I am using VM-virtual box.
Please help, I've researched this and can't figure out what's going on.
Thanks!
aptapathy 1 year ago
@aptapathy you need to install the Virtualbox Additions. There's a page on their wiki about it, but I'm not sure if it's been updated yet for the newer version of Virtualbox.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago