Also, forgot to mention: look at pacman-color for, well. Yeah. Anyway, yep. I've seen a lot of posts from you here already. You ask some questions that perhaps could have been avoided by reading more on the wiki, but you're kind and positive so I think people don't mind. Makes us feel good answering questions anyway ;) Cheers, -AT On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:17 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andrei Thorp wrote: >> >> There are a couple GUI pacman frontends[1], but honestly, I can't >> really see the value. The CLI for pacman is excellent. >> I also like pkg tools, which has useful stuff like pkgfile. pkgfile is >> an add-on that lets you find "which package provides this file". For >> example, if I didn't know what package provides "kate", I could do >> "pkgfile bin/kate" and it would tell me that it's from extra/kdesdk. >> >> [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_GUI_Frontends >> >> Cheers, >> >> -AT >> > > Thanks Andrei! I see your point about pacman. On openSuSE, I did all package > management from the CLI with zypper, so no need for a gui with pacman. The only > thing I ever used yast for concerning package management, would be for massive > "downgrades" of packages where for example dropping from Xorg 7.3 back to 7.2 > was easier with yast's search and then up/downgrade options. > > So far, Arch is killer. I am up and running. Have all the passwordless ssh > access done, samba up and configured, mysql up and secured. Now all I have to > do is generate the ca-certs and get apache2 configured with mod_ssl, > mod_deflate, and mod_rewrite and I'll have a replacement server build on arch. > > Then I can dive into hylafax with Avantfax front-end, configure ppp for a > dial-in server (so I can use the Arch box as a dial in ISP to access the cable > internet connection when I'm stuck at the lake w/o internet). > > After that, I'll be done...(tongue-in-cheek, we all know your are never really > done;-) > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > Rankin Law Firm, PLLC > 510 Ochiltree Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > www.rankinlawfirm.com >
