Wow.. thank u guys for explanation and for command "pacman -Sg base" .. now i understood.. On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, 10:14 am Eli Schwartz, <eschwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On June 21, 2019 12:05:23 AM EDT, Ram Kumar via arch-general < > arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear Archers, > > A day back, i made a fresh install of Arch on my desktop. It is > > completely > > fresh as like it doesnt even have an account other than root. > > My doubt is, wont basic tools like python come in Arch install? or do > > we > > have to install by ourselves? > > > > also can anyone give me a brief approximate list of packages that will > > come > > pre-installed in Arch, other than gnu tools? > > > > Thanks in advance > > yours fellow newbie Archer > > Ramkumar > > That's not really how it works. Arch does not come with programs > preinstalled, because when you follow the Installation Guide and `pacstrap` > a new system, you interactively choose which programs from the base group > are desired. > > What will be installed is: > - A kernel, because you need it to boot. > - Pacman, because it is used for installing and removing things. > - Standard POSIX tools (*not* gnu tools) like the core utilities, > grep, awk, sed, tar, find, sh and so on. Note that most are the > GNU versions by default, but it is possible to swap them out, e.g. > use busybox. > - Select tools that are used by people for basic setup, like > filesystem support tools or networking tools (wpa_supplicant, > netctl). > > Python, and anything else you want on an application level, should be > generally assumed to not exist unless you install it manually or unless it > is basic scripting tools that are advertised by POSIX (in which case you > can usually use them on any Linux distro without checking whether they are > installed). > > -- > Eli Schwartz > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
