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[HyperUniverse]

Hi,

Thanks for help.
The machine is an old pc, not laptop.
I have followed your steps and I got the gui (working?).

Now I have another problem.
Before I updated the video, the mouse & keyboard were working fine in the gui (low resolution).
After updating the video driver (intel), when I startx the keyboard & mouse are not working. I have a nice resolution, but can't do anything.

The next problem I might have (not tested this yet), would be wifi usb adapter.
Right now I am connected to the network via ethernet card, and I get internet through another pc on the network. Everything works OK.
But I want to connect to the router via wifi usb adapter (rt2500 chipset), and still be able to connect to the network via eth0.

Other problem I think I need help with, would be sharing files/folders, and accessing shared resources (files/folders/printers) over the wired network (eth0). On the network I have Debian, Ubuntu & XP. (I want to get rid of Windows forever, probably when I'll handle Linux better)

Other than that, I would like to know what command is eqivalent to "apt-get install/remove" and/or "aptitude install" from debian in Arch.

Could you point me to the right direction?

Regards.

[reed9]

Normally if the keyboard and mouse aren't working when you start the GUI, it's because the HAL daemon isn't running. Did you add it to your daemons array in /etc/rc.conf?

It's at the very end of the file. This is mine right now

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network @net-profiles netfs crond hal @alsa @laptop-mode @cpufreq

The @ backgrounds the process, so it doesn't wait to finish before continuing. (You don't want to do that with HAL though.) The ! means that daemon doesn't start.

Otherwise, before you start the GUI, do /etc/rc.d/hal start to manually start HAL.

Your USB wifi adapter should work fine. You'll probably want a network management program like WICD.

pacman -S wicd

And add wicd to your daemons array.

You can share over the network with windows using samba. I don't use it, so I can't be too much help there. I only ever share with other linux boxes and I just use ssh when I need to.

pacman is the apt-get equivalent.

# install
pacman -S <package>
# search
pacman -Ss <package>
# remove
pacman -R <package>
# remove with dependencies
pacman -Rs <package>
# remove, don't backup config files
pacman -Rn <package>
# uninstall, but skip dependency check
pacman -Rd <package>
# list all installed packages
pacman -Q
# list specific installed package
pacman -Q <package>
# with more info
pacman -Qi <package>
# install local package
pacman -U /path/to/package
# Update all packages (equiv to apt-get dist-upgrade)
pacman -Syu

You can combine all of these options, so for example most the time I uninstall with pacman -Rsn to completely remove a package and its dependencies.

Or another trick, say I wanted to remove any package with the string gnome in it:

pacman -R $(pacman -Qq | grep gnome)

[reed9]

Pacman - ArchWiki