[arch-general] group install
Hi, I read a Arch Linux wiki page says one can "install a group": "Install the xfce4 group." how can I do that? Thanks, - Tim
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 20:16:32 +0800, Tim Ye via arch-general wrote:
I read a Arch Linux wiki page says one can "install a group":
"Install the xfce4 group."
how can I do that?
Actually I shouldn't have replied to your request and instead ban your email address. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Installing_package_groups You already were reading the Wiki and needed to ask this question, while your chosen distro is Arch Linux, not Ubuntu? More information about handling groups could be found by $ man pacman | grep group Regards, Ralf
On 05.01.2017 13:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Actually I shouldn't have replied to your request and instead ban your email address.
Good thing you can't ban people from this list. I could, but I'll give you another chance to not hit reply the next time you'd want to write a reply like this. Florian
That was excessive, Ralf. Arch may be a DIY distro, but that doesn't mean we should humiliate and belittle people who don't already know everything about the system. Tim: I'm sorry you got that response. A "group" in pacman is an alias for a bunch of packages, you install it just as if the group was an ordinary package. /Emil On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, 13:24 Ralf Mardorf, <silver.bullet@zoho.com> wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 20:16:32 +0800, Tim Ye via arch-general wrote:
I read a Arch Linux wiki page says one can "install a group":
"Install the xfce4 group."
how can I do that?
Actually I shouldn't have replied to your request and instead ban your email address.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Installing_package_groups
You already were reading the Wiki and needed to ask this question, while your chosen distro is Arch Linux, not Ubuntu?
More information about handling groups could be found by
$ man pacman | grep group
Regards, Ralf
On 2017-01-05 13:31+0000, Emil Lundberg via arch-general wrote:
That was excessive, Ralf. Arch may be a DIY distro, but that doesn't mean we should humiliate and belittle people who don't already know everything about the system.
Tim: I'm sorry you got that response. A "group" in pacman is an alias for a bunch of packages, you install it just as if the group was an ordinary package. Thanks for the help and thank you for saying that. :)
Actually there was typo of the command I issued, then I thought I missed something thus started this thread.
/Emil
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, 13:24 Ralf Mardorf, <silver.bullet@zoho.com> wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 20:16:32 +0800, Tim Ye via arch-general wrote:
I read a Arch Linux wiki page says one can "install a group":
"Install the xfce4 group."
how can I do that?
Actually I shouldn't have replied to your request and instead ban your email address.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Installing_package_groups
You already were reading the Wiki and needed to ask this question, while your chosen distro is Arch Linux, not Ubuntu?
More information about handling groups could be found by
$ man pacman | grep group
Regards, Ralf
- Tim
On 2017-01-05 13:24+0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 20:16:32 +0800, Tim Ye via arch-general wrote:
I read a Arch Linux wiki page says one can "install a group":
"Install the xfce4 group."
how can I do that?
Actually I shouldn't have replied to your request and instead ban your email address.
I'm sorry if I violated any rule of the list.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Installing_package_groups
Thank you for your kindly help, that worked.
You already were reading the Wiki and needed to ask this question, while your chosen distro is Arch Linux, not Ubuntu?
More information about handling groups could be found by
$ man pacman | grep group
Regards, Ralf
- Tim
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 14:29:24 +0100, Florian Pritz via arch-general wrote:
On 05.01.2017 13:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Actually I shouldn't have replied to your request and instead ban your email address.
Good thing you can't ban people from this list. I could, but I'll give you another chance to not hit reply the next time you'd want to write a reply like this.
This isn't the point. Subscribers could ban senders by their servers or MUAs, without even let the sender know that they did. We all sometimes ask stupid questions, but this seriously was a strange request and apart from this, you could assume "irony", since I helped the OP, but I also wanted to add a comment. On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 21:54:21 +0800, Tim Ye via arch-general wrote:
Actually I shouldn't have replied to your request and instead ban your email address.
I'm sorry if I violated any rule of the list.
My apologies, if my _ironical_ wording should have been to harsh, but it was a "let me google that for you" question, especially strange, since you already were reading the Arch Wiki.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Installing_package_groups
Thank you for your kindly help, that worked.
You are welcome! Regards, Ralf
On 01/05/2017 11:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
This isn't the point. Subscribers could ban senders by their servers or MUAs, without even let the sender know that they did.
No you can't. You could filter/block them, though. Claiming to "ban" someone is unambiguously false representation as an actual authority figure.
We all sometimes ask stupid questions, but this seriously was a strange request and apart from this, you could assume "irony", since I helped the OP, but I also wanted to add a comment.
Not really a strange request compared to some I have seen... -- Eli Schwartz
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:28:23 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
You could filter/block them, though.
Ok, "ban" is the wrong term, it should read "block". English isn't my native language, so this could happen. However, I helped the OP, I apologized and I can repeat it: My apologies for the harsh ironical wording. Regards, Ralf
On 2017-01-05 17:37+0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:28:23 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
You could filter/block them, though.
Ok, "ban" is the wrong term, it should read "block". English isn't my native language, so this could happen.
However, I helped the OP, I apologized and I can repeat it: My apologies for the harsh ironical wording. It's fine. I didn't take it personally.
Regards, Ralf
- Tim
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Eli Schwartz
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Florian Pritz
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Ralf Mardorf
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Tim Ye