On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 5:00 PM, <hed...@tutanota.com> wrote:

> @Olivier Medoc
>
> First off, thank you for all the work you've clearly put into the Arch
> Linux build and documentation for Qubes.
>
> FYI, I'd just like to add my own experiences when I tried to use the new
> template. (Since I was using the ready-built template, I skipped your build
> instructions and started at section "Package Manager Proxy Setup Section".):
>
> 1. After the initial download, the template VM wouldn't close down and was
> eventually killed by the qubes-dom0-update script. That behaviour was
> repeated after I started and tried to shutdown the template VM myself.
> 2. Just like Francesco, I had difficulty reading the command lines,
> because it is virtually impossible to distinguish a single- from a
> double-dash and copy/paste wasn't working. I tried in both Firefox and
> Chromium so it wasn't browser related. A fixed-pitch font should do the
> trick.
> 3. Since gnome-terminal wouldn't open, it would have been useful if you
> had specifically named the "archlinux terminal app" for those of us not
> versed in Arch Linux. I used xterm as a fallback, which worked, but later
> found out that there is an xfce4-terminal that is very like gnome-terminal.
> 4. Step 3 Install Pacman failed with an error about a database file not
> existing. Some research led me to try "pacman -Syy" (I think without
> "sudo") which did the trick.
> 5. Step 7 Configure Powerpill...  the description (though not the example)
> omits the need for a comma on the preceding line.
>
> Otherwise, it's now all up and running. Now all I have to do is get my
> head around Arch!
>
>
Mine is also working! Thanks to Olivier for your long time commitment.
Happy new Year!


> Mike
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