On 04/01/12 03:25, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: Carry on doing what *you* want not what others want you to do. I too joined "The pain of making tea." that is Arch Linux due to the statement that used to be on display; *Q)*When I run “pacman –sync” it comes up with “could not open sync database:reponame have you used –refresh yet?” but when I run pacman –refresh it does nothing?! *A)*This error is due to your inability to read man pages. We recommend you try the pacman man page – it really is very useful. I also agree that it's probably not for an absolute beginner, however if you can read a wiki or a forum then I see no reason why a so called n00b shouldn't give Arch a go. I see no excuse for arrogance or rudeness people that do that can "Get off my lawn." thank you very much. "There is *every* excuse for not knowing, there is *no* excuse for not asking." #freedom