Glad I could help, thanks for giving me a reason to try Arch!
-Josh

Glad I could help, thanks for giving me a reason to try Arch!
-Josh

I remember myself proposing the idea for an Arch Linux setup guide a few weeks ago for a googlewave invitation! Since I saw many great ideas about new articles proposed as well by other readers, I wasn’t expecting you to deal with Arch so quickly! :) :)

The guide is awesome! It helped me with some questions that I had and clarified some things that I was doing without understanding!….. I have managed to install Arch several times in virtual machines, however never tried it on a real pc. Of course, main phobia behind this, is my fear that I won’t be able to easily deal with hardware compatibility problems that may occur – therefore my usual -failsafe- option is Ubuntu or Mint.

Even so, every time I install Ubuntu, I choose the Minimal CD (I found the concept of installation pretty much the same with Arch’s)…
I will spend some time with Arch in real life, now that I am more familiar with command line and Linux’s concept!

Thanks again for the how-to! :)
M@t

I remember myself proposing the idea for an Arch Linux setup guide a few weeks ago for a googlewave invitation! Since I saw many great ideas about new articles proposed as well by other readers, I wasn’t expecting you to deal with Arch so quickly! :) :)

The guide is awesome! It helped me with some questions that I had and clarified some things that I was doing without understanding!….. I have managed to install Arch several times in virtual machines, however never tried it on a real pc. Of course, main phobia behind this, is my fear that I won’t be able to easily deal with hardware compatibility problems that may occur – therefore my usual -failsafe- option is Ubuntu or Mint.

Even so, every time I install Ubuntu, I choose the Minimal CD (I found the concept of installation pretty much the same with Arch’s)…
I will spend some time with Arch in real life, now that I am more familiar with command line and Linux’s concept!

Thanks again for the how-to! :)
M@t

then make a builds folder (i just have it in ~)

$ mkdir ~/builds

then cd to builds and wget the tar.gz from the package you found at aur.archlinux.org

then tar xvzf it out and cd to the directory it created..

then take a look at the PKGBUILD and make sure there’s nothing nasty in it.. then run makepkg (note – you need sudo capabilities; it will look and install any needed dependencies that are in the regular repos)

$ makepkg -si ===> (-si will install the package after it get built into the tar.gz; otherwise you will need to pacman -U builtpackage.tar.gz as root or via sudo)

And you are done… many archers do it this way and don’t use yaourt or similar tools (Although I’ve heard one called Slurpy is quite excellent)

then make a builds folder (i just have it in ~)

$ mkdir ~/builds

then cd to builds and wget the tar.gz from the package you found at aur.archlinux.org

then tar xvzf it out and cd to the directory it created..

then take a look at the PKGBUILD and make sure there’s nothing nasty in it.. then run makepkg (note – you need sudo capabilities; it will look and install any needed dependencies that are in the regular repos)

$ makepkg -si ===> (-si will install the package after it get built into the tar.gz; otherwise you will need to pacman -U builtpackage.tar.gz as root or via sudo)

And you are done… many archers do it this way and don’t use yaourt or similar tools (Although I’ve heard one called Slurpy is quite excellent)

# pacman -Sy powerpill
and then to install something faster:
# powerpill -Sy firefox arora rhythmbox

It will go way faster!

# pacman -Sy powerpill
and then to install something faster:
# powerpill -Sy firefox arora rhythmbox

It will go way faster!

# pacman -Sy powerpill
and then to install something faster:
# powerpill -Sy firefox arora rhythmbox

It will go way faster!

# pacman -Sy powerpill
and then to install something faster:
# powerpill -Sy firefox arora rhythmbox

It will go way faster!