Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > Hello, I've been using various Linux distros for a while now. I just > decided to give Arch Linux a try. But I'm a little bit lost. I'm used to > distros like Xubuntu, PCLinuxOS, OpenSuSE, etc... Where I don't need to > personally understand what order I need to install which packages to get > at least one GUI desktop up & running... You don't need to understand the *Order* in Arch either? > The install itself went ok. But I needed to add a few things. > > First I used the list of typical tasks for pacman from the installation > guide, to figure out how to look for a package and install it with pacman. > > I installed mc and vim without a problem. Then I thought it would be nice > if I could get a desktop up. Well it would those are non GUI apps as you know with your opensuse ect experience. I did a: > > pacman -Si xfce|less > > and looked for a package that might get me to a minimal desktop I could work with. > I thought maybe xfdesktop... > > pacman -S xfdesktop Why have you done this? If you look at the 'man' page you will see http://linux.die.net/man/1/xfdesktop xfdesktop manages the desktop itself in the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment. You should have done pacman -S xfce4 By the sound of it you've only installed part of the desktop environment. <cut> > More to the point: Will I need to figure out how to uninstall xfdesktop to resolve > the error? No. > Could some nice Arch user point me at enough step by step instructions so > that I can get enough of a gui up to use a browser like firefox so I can > try to find solutions via the web while Arch is actually running??? You need to do as others have suggested and read the beginners guide http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide especially the "Setting up X" section.
