2007/5/11, Wayne Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, > > I have been using gentoo for the last +- 5 years anyway after a hdd > dying on me yesterday I decided to try arch last night. > > I downloaded and installed the ISO and was impressed with the speed, > simplicity and my general first impression was good. > > I had also downloaded some extra packages including openbox, qemu, blah > blah blah. > I installed the additional packages using the command > > # pacman -A <package name>
Note that pacman -A / -U do not install dependencies. They are not for common use. Why didn't you download and install them with pacman -Sy <foobar> ? Also, you can use pacman -Sw <foobar> to download it to package cache and install later any time with pacman -S <foobar> > > all seemed to go well until I tried to run the application. > > $ figlet > /usr/bin/figlet: cannot execute binary file > > My question is this, I downloaded these packages from the > extra/os/x86_64 folder from the same mirror I dl'ed the ISO. > how can the be incompatible ? So, you have Arch for x86_64... Any comments from x86_64 users? > I did not run > > $ file <filename> > > To check the format as I did not think of it last night, I have googled > but come up with nothing :-( > > Overall first impressions are really good, I suddenly understand the > hype. :-) Glad to hear you like it. Welcome into community. ;-) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
