Subj : ArchLinux
To : ACCESS DENIED
From : GRYPHON
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:20 pm
On 08/22/14, Access Denied said the following...
AD> Hello g00r00,
AD>
AD> On 21 Aug 14 17:53, g00r00 wrote to Access Denied:
AD>
AD> gr> I'm sold! I'll have to give it a chance sometime.
AD>
AD> gr> Right now I am using Ubuntu 14, having recently switched from Mint
AD> gr> Linux 13. I usually pick whatever I can find that has the packages I
AD> gr> want, so I have little to no code compiling.
AD>
AD> The main difference with Archlinux is that after you install, you have a
AD> barebones command line system with a package manager. After that, you
AD> add what YOU want, not what they think you want. :)
AD>
AD> So a simple:
AD>
AD> pacman -S xorg [gnome/kde/fluxbox/whatever]
AD>
AD> Will get you X and a desktop environment of your choice in about 5
AD> minutes or less, depending on whether you install kde or fluxbox (big
AD> meta packaged desktop environment compared to a very small lightweight
AD> window manager).
AD>
AD> gr> I switched to Ubuntu because it had SDL2 at the time, when most other
AD> gr> didn't.
AD>
AD> Looks like:
AD>
AD> pacman -S sdl2
AD>
AD> wants to install sdl2 and all it's dependencies. :)
AD>
AD> pacman -Syu
AD>
AD> updates your entire system.
AD>
AD> pacman -Rsu
AD>
AD> removes package(s) and it's dependencies as well as any unneeded
AD> packages (if dependencies weren't removed but a package was at some
AD> point).
AD>
AD> The list goes on.. But it's short and sweet and to the point. I don't
AD> have anything on here that's not being used. :)
My only attempt at installing Arch Linux was on my Pi. It seemed to install
great, but then *after* the install it wanted to configure the swap space.
But there was no more space on the drive to add it, because it was all used
during the install. Is that a problem that is specific to the Pi install?
Can it be worked into the initial installation, so that I don't have to
configure swap after the fact?
"No matter where you go, there you are!" - B. Bonzai
