Commands not to run on Linux?

PermaBanned said:
Well cfdisk looked a lot less confusing than i remember, but when i couldn't find the hex code for EXT2 or 4 i remembered that that's almost exactly what the auto setup does anyway, so i just went through that and changed the sizes. Anyway, i have a usable Gnome 3 desktop up and running now, with flash and sound. Not bad for one night's work, i think we'll have a good week's worth of tweaking now though ;)

Thanks for your help :)
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Fair enough. You don't really need to know the hex codes though; you can set the filesystem type in "Manually configure block devices, filesystems and mountpoints". :)

Glad to hear you've got a system running! Now wait until you can do all that in a couple of hours without referring to the wiki for anything*. :D

*I need to get out more. :(
 
JHeaton said:
*I need to get out more. :(
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Pft, then who will give me advice ;)

But yeah, it's going well. Haven't got my head round customizing syslinux, or installing Slim, Conky, Splashy but there's plenty of time for that :)

Something that springs to mind though that i don't think i've ever seen mentioned - i just installing AUR packages using tar, makepkg and pacman instead of yaourt. Do they automatically update?
 
Nope. You have to update them yourself when a new version is available, since there's nothing on your system to do so (pacman cannot - and will not - install packages directly from AUR, they must be built by yourself or a helper first).
 
Yeah that's a no, yaourt is pretty handy but you'd be better off handling bs manually for the time being, at least until you feel how everything connects
 
A slight variation on the rm ones...

"Oh, I have a whole bunch of dot files and folders to delete...."

rm -rf .*

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Hairybudda said:
Yeah that's a no, yaourt is pretty handy but you'd be better off handling bs manually for the time being, at least until you feel how everything connects
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Oh, i'm fine with how the AUR works - this is my third Arch install. This one hopefully has far fewer newbie mistakes though :p

I think yaourt can automatically update AUR packages though, from the manual:

Code: 
SYNC OPTIONS
       -a, --aur
           Also search in AUR database. With -u or --sysupgrade, upgrade aur
           packages that are out of date. With -Qm, display more info about
           foreign package.
 
lol, you make me laugh Mr. PermaBanned :-D

Lets us know which one you ran, and if you found yourself in a position where you HAD to reinstall.
 
I went for the good ol' "rm -rf /", but as su and telling it that it was alright to do it. Partially worked, but there were still a few directories that it didn't have permission for.

I don't actually know if it would boot up, seems just the motivation from this thread was enough for me to install Arch anyway :D
 
Hmm, running back for help again :D

I got Limbo from Steam running in Wine perfectly, then i paused it and tried to watch a youtube video - no sound. Game sound works fine, no sound in anything else. If i close the game and refresh the page then the sound is back again. If i then open Limbo again there's no sound in that. Any way i can have sound in... you know, more than one application? I thought i was using ALSA but a package query shows that Gnome 3 might install Pulseaudio of it's own accord... i also ran something in terminal at some point (yeah, specific, but i'm tired so deal with it :p) and got an error code along the lines of 'don't know what to do with [x] number of channels, pretending there's only 2 channels'. There were about five similar to this and X ranged from 32 to about 10,000.

And why do web fonts change when you install the AUR packages you need for Wine? What priority is it in? Not that they're bad, i just set them to anti-alias as much as possible. But it takes a bit of getting used to, i'd like to understand why it happens.

Any ideas? Thanks :)

EDIT: Erm... sort of fixed itself. Maybe something i did last night required a reboot? Thanks anyways :p
 
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