linuxman410 | does any one here know how to install packages with pacman in terminal | 02:27 |
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linuxman410 | wrst u here | 02:28 |
linuxman410 | cyberanger u here | 02:29 |
linuxman410 | Unit193 u here | 02:30 |
Juzzy | heh. | 02:37 |
Juzzy | pacman -S i think | 02:37 |
Juzzy | man pacman or google it | 02:37 |
Juzzy | i hate packman's synax | 02:37 |
linuxman410 | Juzzy i went with zenwalk instead | 02:37 |
Juzzy | yum/apt* is way easier | 02:38 |
Juzzy | ah ok | 02:38 |
wrst | linuxman410: i'm here | 02:40 |
wrst | Juzzy: is correct to install pacakges as root: pacman -S packagename | 02:41 |
wrst | and that's an uppercase S | 02:41 |
linuxman410 | wrst u ever tried zenwalk | 02:41 |
wrst | linuxman410: all you ever wanted to know about pacman, and more: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman | 02:42 |
wrst | never have linuxman410 | 02:42 |
wrst | linuxman410: if you install gnome or kde gnome packagekit and k package kit work really nicely with arch | 02:43 |
linuxman410 | wrst i am trying out new oses | 02:43 |
wrst | cool linuxman410 which ones? | 02:43 |
linuxman410 | i tried archbang could not get it going | 02:43 |
linuxman410 | tried vector linux 7 another no go | 02:44 |
linuxman410 | i am hunting oses that are freindly with broadcom wireless | 02:44 |
wrst | linuxman410: I would just go with straight up arch personally | 02:46 |
linuxman410 | wrst does it like broadcom wireless | 02:46 |
wrst | and friendly with broadcom, mint, pclinuxos, mandriva, sabayon | 02:47 |
wrst | linuxman410: by friendly with how do you mean that? :) | 02:47 |
linuxman410 | wrst i mean it works | 02:47 |
wrst | yes I've had no issues: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless | 02:48 |
wrst | but is it easy, no | 02:48 |
wrst | linuxman410: you wanting to go light weight? | 02:48 |
linuxman410 | wrst yeah | 02:49 |
wrst | i don't think that you are going to find a lot of easy setups on something that is light | 02:51 |
wrst | linuxman410: thought about lubuntu? | 02:51 |
linuxman410 | wrst i tried ubuntu but could not get broadcom going | 02:51 |
linuxman410 | lubuntu | 02:51 |
wrst | linuxman410: what chip do you have? | 02:55 |
wrst | I know there are a couple atleast that are a real pain | 02:56 |
linuxman410 | broadcom 4309 | 02:56 |
wrst | I had a pretty common one that wasn't so bad | 02:56 |
wrst | ugh looks like a booger | 02:57 |
linuxman410 | wrst so far it works in fedora and zenwalk | 02:58 |
wrst | that's cool linuxman410have to do anything special? | 03:39 |
linuxman410 | no not at all | 03:42 |
wrst | hmm linuxman410 that's right f15 was that way for me | 03:45 |
wrst | using all opensource stuff too | 03:45 |
linuxman410 | yes | 03:46 |
wrst | linuxman410: since I changed laptops i made sure I spec'd it out to work easily that makes a world of difference | 03:47 |
linuxman410 | -wrst how do u update arch in terminal | 03:49 |
linuxman410 | wrst how do you update arch in terminal | 03:50 |
wrst | linuxman410: pacman -Syu | 03:50 |
linuxman410 | wrst thanks | 03:51 |
vychune | o/ | 04:04 |
Unit193 | And I'm here now, but that doesn't matter... | 04:47 |
cyberanger | Unit193: lol | 05:05 |
cyberanger | says who? | 05:05 |
Unit193 | I got a ping a bit back... | 05:06 |
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vychune | o/ | 14:27 |
linuxman410 | anyone here | 16:49 |
linuxman410 | anyone here | 16:50 |
linuxman410 | wrst u here | 16:50 |
linuxman410 | cyberanger u here | 16:51 |
linuxman410 | Unit193 u here | 16:51 |
linuxman410 | anyone here | 19:44 |
wrst | hey linuxman410 | 19:57 |
linuxman410 | wrst u still here | 20:12 |
Unit193 | I'm here for a sec | 20:28 |
linuxman410 | Unit193 happy 4th | 20:33 |
wrst | linuxman410: yep just in and out what's up? | 20:34 |
linuxman410 | nothing much testing out aptosid it is awesome | 20:35 |
Unit193 | Why thankie! | 20:36 |
wrst | linuxman410: what is that? | 21:01 |
linuxman410 | it is based on debian unstable | 21:03 |
linuxman410 | it used to be called sidux | 21:04 |
wrst | Ah didn't know that why the name change? | 21:15 |
linuxman410 | do not know but it runs goog on p3 2gigahertz and 512 ram xfce version | 21:18 |
wrst | cool | 21:24 |
Unit193 | I do thing it's a kernel? | 23:47 |
Unit193 | ...uses a different kernel? | 23:47 |
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