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22. The main Sytem
From now on we will install packages many at once. For any of those we will be prompted that the latest version is installed we will reply not to install it again.
pacman -S make automake cvs wget aria2 patch subversion git fakeroot tar bzip2 unrar lha zip unzip p7zip aufs aufs-utils
pacman -S udev hal dbus fam acpid lm_sensors logrotate htop lsof ethtool fuse
pacman -S coreutils pciutils usbutils hwd lshwd util-linux-ng chkrootkit
pacman -S portmap nfs-utils cups samba openssh ntp openntpd smartmontools net-snmp tcptraceroute netkit-ftp netkit-telnet
pacman -S reiserfsprogs xfsprogs xfsdump jfsutils
pacman -S reiserfsprogs xfsprogs xfsdump jfsutils
for a desktop also type:
pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-utils xorg xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse
You may avoid this step if you want Arch only for server use.
23. Video Drivers Installation
for nVidia GeForce5 and above
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils
for ATi RADEON from X-XXXXX and above
pacman -S catalyst catalyst-utils
for ATi RADEON till 9800XT
pacman -S xf86-video-ati libgl-dri driconf
24. Desktop Installation
Here we are going to install one of the two basic Desktops, Gnome or KDE.
for Gnome
pacman -S gnome gnome-desktop gnome-extra gnome-screensaver computertemp mail-notification gdm kdebase deskbar-applet mesa
for KDE
pacman -S kde gtk-qt-engine ksensors knemo kbiff mesa
Next let’s install Microsoft fonts which are more comfortable:
cd /usr/share/fonts mkdir ms-fonts
The ms-fonts directory could be named as you like. Just make it have only small latin letters without spaces.
In there we copy as many fonts as we want from a Windows installation. Then type:
fc-cache -f -v
