Arch Linux

[viking60]

Yes I installed powerpill and also integrated it with yaourt it trully is fast. Good stuf

[viking60]

Happy as a peach now! I managed to install a splash screen in Arch. Not easy but it works. I installed the arch-black theme.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fbsplash
Edit:
And now I wonder why I did it. I just remembered that I do not really like splash screens

[dedanna1029]

Was gonna say, I don't use the things. LOL.

Had a busy day, I presume?

[viking60]

yup Going for now

[dedanna1029]

Updates for Arch today, much the same as for Fedora. I'm imagining these updates are "distro-wide" so to speak, and so far are going fine for Fedora and Arch both. Pastebin here.

[dedanna1029]

Have you updated Arch? If so, how did it go?

[viking60]

I update Arch every day! And there are updates every day. No problems so far. I had a Kernel update a while ago that broke yaourt but that was easily fixed.
But this is a big one - updating now......

:) sudo bauerbill -Syu
Passord:
:: Synkroniserer pakkedatabaser ...
core er oppdatert
extra er oppdatert
community er oppdatert
archlinuxfr er oppdatert
--> Searching for upgradable repo packages...
--> resolving perl... installed
--> resolving perl-libwww... installed
--> resolving perl-xyne-common>=1.0.3... installed
--> resolving sh... installed (provided by bash)
--> resolving openssl>=1.0.0... installed
--> resolving glibc... installed
--> resolving gtk2>=2.20.1... installed
--> resolving gcc-libs... installed
--> resolving mozilla-common... installed
--> resolving nss>=3.12.3... installed
--> resolving libxt... installed
--> resolving shared-mime-info... installed
--> resolving alsa-lib>=1.0.23... installed
--> resolving dbus-glib>=0.82... installed
--> resolving libidl2>=0.8.13... installed
--> resolving nss>=3.12.6... installed
--> resolving hunspell>=1.2.8... installed
--> resolving startup-notification>=0.10... installed
--> resolving mime-types... installed
--> resolving dbus-glib>=0.86... installed
--> resolving libevent... installed
--> resolving mozilla-common>=1.3... installed
--> resolving nss>=3.12.4... installed
--> resolving gcc-libs>=4.5... installed
--> resolving alsa-lib... installed
--> resolving firefox>=3.6.10... found in [extra]
--> resolving xulrunner=1.9.2.10... found in [extra]
--> resolving desktop-file-utils... installed
--> resolving thunderbird>=3.1.4... found in [extra]
--> resolving util-linux-ng>=2.16... installed
--> resolving pcre>=8.02... installed

:: The following packages will be downloaded:
[core]
glib2-2.24.2-1 mdadm-3.1.4-1 mkinitcpio-busybox-1.17.2-1 xfsprogs-3.1.3-1
xz-4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1
[extra]
firefox-3.6.10-1 firefox-i18n-3.6.10-1 postgresql-libs-8.4.4-5
seamonkey-2.0.8-1 thunderbird-3.1.4-1 thunderbird-nb-3.1.4-1
xulrunner-1.9.2.10-1
[community]
perl-xyne-arch-2010.09.13.1-2

:: Number of Packages: 13
:: Total Download Size: 40.57 MiB
:: Binary Package Install Size: 195.18 MiB

:: Proceed with download? [Y/n] y

--> successfully downloaded perl-xyne-arch-2010.09.13.1-2-any.pkg.tar.xz
--> successfully downloaded mkinitcpio-busybox-1.17.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
--> successfully downloaded mdadm-3.1.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
--> successfully downloaded xfsprogs-3.1.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
--> successfully downloaded xz-4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
--> successfully downloaded postgresql-libs-8.4.4-5-i686.pkg.tar.xz
--> successfully downloaded firefox-3.6.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
--> successfully downloaded thunderbird-nb-3.1.4-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
--> successfully downloaded glib2-2.24.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
--> successfully downloaded seamonkey-2.0.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
--> successfully downloaded firefox-i18n-3.6.10-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
--> successfully downloaded thunderbird-3.1.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
--> successfully downloaded xulrunner-1.9.2.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

Download Results:
gid|stat|avg speed |path/URI
===+====+===========+===========================================================
10| OK| 34.3KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/perl-xyne-arch-2010.09.13.1-2-any.pkg.tar.xz
3| OK| 47.5KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/mkinitcpio-busybox-1.17.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
7| OK| 64.6KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/mdadm-3.1.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
11| OK| 101.5KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xfsprogs-3.1.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
13| OK| 48.2KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xz-4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
9| OK| 41.4KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/postgresql-libs-8.4.4-5-i686.pkg.tar.xz
6| OK| 72.5KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/firefox-3.6.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
8| OK| 14.3KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/thunderbird-nb-3.1.4-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
5| OK| 51.9KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/glib2-2.24.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
2| OK| 310.1KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/seamonkey-2.0.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
1| OK| 105.1KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/firefox-i18n-3.6.10-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
12| OK| 114.4KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/thunderbird-3.1.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
4| OK| 170.7KiB/s|/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xulrunner-1.9.2.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

Status Legend:
(OK):download completed.

--> Switching to pacman: '/usr/bin/pacman --config /etc/pacman.conf -S -u"
:: Starter full systemoppgradering ...
avgjør avhengigheter ...
leter etter konflikter ...

Mål (13): xulrunner-1.9.2.10-1 firefox-3.6.10-1 firefox-i18n-3.6.10-1
glib2-2.24.2-1 mdadm-3.1.4-1 mkinitcpio-busybox-1.17.2-1
perl-xyne-arch-2010.09.13.1-2 postgresql-libs-8.4.4-5
seamonkey-2.0.8-1 thunderbird-3.1.4-1 thunderbird-nb-3.1.4-1
xfsprogs-3.1.3-1 xz-4.999.9beta_174_g41bc-1

Total Nedlastingsmengde: 0,00 MB
Total Installasjonsmengde: 195,18 MB

Fortsett til installasjon? [J/n] j
sjekker pakkens integritet ...
(13/13) leter etter filkonflikter [######################] 100%
( 1/13) oppgraderer xulrunner [######################] 100%
( 2/13) oppgraderer firefox [######################] 100%
( 3/13) oppgraderer firefox-i18n [######################] 100%
( 4/13) oppgraderer glib2 [######################] 100%
( 5/13) oppgraderer mdadm [######################] 100%
( 6/13) oppgraderer mkinitcpio-busybox [######################] 100%
( 7/13) oppgraderer perl-xyne-arch [######################] 100%
( 8/13) oppgraderer postgresql-libs [######################] 100%
( 9/13) oppgraderer seamonkey [######################] 100%
(10/13) oppgraderer thunderbird [######################] 100%
(11/13) oppgraderer thunderbird-nb [######################] 100%
(12/13) oppgraderer xfsprogs [######################] 100%
(13/13) oppgraderer xz

No problems!

[dedanna1029]

Hhmmm. Afraid of the nvidia & kernel updates that I just took in Fedora. Did you get those? I haven't updated since I've been back in Arch because am afraid of those.

[viking60]

You can do the update in non GUI environment. Making sure that the drivers are not running.

Code: Select all

sudo nano /etc/inittab

# /etc/inittab
#

# Runlevels:
# 0 Halt
# 1(S) Single-user
# 2 Not used
# 3 Multi-user
# 4 Not used
# 5 X11
# 6 Reboot

## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
id:3:initdefault: uncomment this
# Boot to X11
#id:5:initdefault: (comment this)

reboot and upgrade with yum update
then edit innittab again and reverse the above.

It will enable a smooth replacement of the nvidia drivers - that's the theory

[dedanna1029]

Okay, thanks. Will give it a go later on. I wish playing with /etc/inittab would work for Fedora.

[dedanna1029]

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?p=828119#828119

So you are saying that we have two here then?
I think I must have a closer look at Arch.

Thought you already had? I'm keeping with mine, btw. Will have a look at their two maybe a couple years down the road. I really don't expect anything great 'n good 'n wonderful (not to mention that's Gnome too) for at least that long.

[viking60]

Well I have two Arch boxes and two Mandriva boxes here in the boys room - But I can always look closer I guess. The ting is: That line of argumentation is hurting both Mandriva and Mageia. They need to cooperate IMHO. I am not a fanboy by nature, so If the next Mageia or Mandriva sux. I will switch to the distro that doesn't. Also if nothing happens (the most likely scenario) on both ends - they will discover that loyalty is a rare commodity. The OS (distro) is the reason we are in there for. And if that minimum is not provided they cannot keep their user base. All the hot flaming in the world cannot change that. People are not going to stay loyal to Mageia just because Marketing and communication sucked at Mandriva. They are going to stay because they produce a good distro.

And then They have to tell the world about it, which they seem to be reluctant about. The forum discussion is utter chaos. Only my opinion. There are those who claim that a forum will disturb the development of the distro. Mandriva is put to the test too, and they sure need to keep up the good work - more than ever. The new management is not to blame for the old sins - and must get a chance. Most Mageia people are in the "heard it all before" mode, and just don't believe in Mandriva anymore. Sadly it is a realistic scenario that non of them will make it. That would be a disaster for Linux IMO. I already prefer Arch, but I have recommended Mandriva to new users so far, because of it's ease of use. As Arch states; it is not for everyone. It is different and it is stable, and it needs a user that is awake and aware. Mandriva is the leader in the "easy" department - so there really is no competition.