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[arch-general] A question about installing Arch
by Christian 16 Oct '11

16 Oct '11

Hi all, I just have a question and I really need to install Arch. Unfortunatly, I only have the 2010-05 release CD here and I am not able to burn the new one. Is it correct that it will not be able to download the system and install it? If not, are there any other ways for me to get this installed? Many thanks for any help, Christian

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[arch-general] [signoff] kbd-1.15.3-2
by Tobias Powalowski 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hi, added fix for colemak keyboard layout, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] How to setup Xorg on VirtualBox?
by Croco 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

I am a newbie of ArchLinux. I have installed Arch on VirtualBox (Running on windows 7), but unable to startx, does anyone know some instructions about this?

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[arch-general] OpenVAS in AUR not compiling
by Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hello guys, I require you to test some stuff. Trying to compile OpenVAS, I get Error 2 or some other things. Now I ask, it's my fault or...? Let me know if openvas-libraries in AUR builds fine for you ;) -- Bl@ster / dottorblaster

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[arch-general] cannot generate enough entropy for pacman-key --init
by Alper Kanat 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hey There, I have an Arch Linux box inside Virtualbox on a Mac that I use for development purposes. I connect to this machine via SSH without any visual interface. It's on [testing] and just upgraded to pacman 4.0 and after installation it asked me to run pacman-key --init to generate the necessary keys for my system. I did all of these inside GNU Screen (also tried without it without any luck): $ sudo pacman-key --init gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key... Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes) I pressed random bits with the keyboard but it didn't work so I fired up another window inside screen and did cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null but that also didn't work. So I found this [1] article and tried it again without any luck. So I'm basically stuck here. Can someone please help me? Since pacman is bricked, I can't also install anything. Now I have to manually downgrade pacman if I can't succeed. Thanks! [1] http://www.thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/blog/22-01-2010/generate-entropy-gnupg --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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[arch-general] VirtualBox not running properly
by Madhurya Kakati 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

Hi, I installed Virtual/box from the official repos. However when I try to run a Virtual OS it gives me the following error. http://i.imgur.com/sBzl4.png I followed all the instructions after installing it.

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[arch-general] How to setup Xorg on VirtualBox?
by Jason 15 Oct '11

15 Oct '11

I am a newbie of ArchLinux. I have installed Arch on VirtualBox (Running on windows 7), but unable to startx, does anyone know some instructions about this?

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[arch-general] Problems with .install file and pacman 4.0
by fredbezies 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hello. I don't have any powers to post on arch-dev-public, so I'm writing here. Since I upgraded to pacman 4.0 (and building tools related to pacman 4.0), some packages which have both an install file and a name like something-git won't build. For example, if I try to build vlc-git, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16084, I cannot get it build until I comment install=() line : [fred@fredo-arch vlc-git]$ makepkg ==> ERROR : install file (('vlc-git.install')) doesn't exist But a little ls tells me : [fred@fredo-arch vlc-git]$ ls PKGBUILD vlc-git.install Known bug ? install file line in this package : install=('vlc-git.install') I can see the same for a package I try to maintain, kvm-git : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22041 Any ideas ? -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] Yaourt and pacman 4.0
by fredbezies 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

A little tip for yaourt users having problem with pacman 4.0 in testing. You will have to build both package-query-git and yaourt-git. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35478 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18676 -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] In reply to [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 4.0.0-2
by Karol Blazewicz 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > I see my text was probably hard to read, but it was not about some > packages not being updated for pacman 4.0 yet but a possible bug (or > two) in pacman itself. > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre > Same thing happened when I installed yaourt: [2011-10-14 14:36] Running 'pacman -S yaourt' [2011-10-14 14:36] warning: /etc/pacman.conf installed as /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew [2011-10-14 14:36] warning: /etc/makepkg.conf installed as /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew [2011-10-14 14:36] upgraded pacman (4.0.0-2 -> 3.5.4-4) [2011-10-14 14:36] installed package-query (0.9-1) [2011-10-14 14:36] installed yaourt (0.10.2-1) Now when I want to upgrade to pacman 4 it behaves as expected: resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: package-query: requires pacman<3.6

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