On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:01 AM, Tim W <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 3:00:40 PM UTC-5, [email protected] > 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! > > > > > > Mike > > Mike, > > The errors in syntax in the instructions are my fault. I helped update > the entire instruction guide and obviously there are some typos. While I > did post it all up for review those must have slipped thru. It was alot of > new instructions and images. I was trying to make it so people could c&p > the various cmds to try and make it that much easier. The issue being > that some of them did not obviously transfer correctly and or I typo'd. > Not sure how it happened as I took the images and c&p the cmds as part of a > full template build which was successful but somehow it seems it did happen. > > The reason powerpill was not given specific configs was at the time a > number of people had posted that pacman should have had a option to config > the proxy ip which ended up not being the case at least not from anything I > could find. I left it up to the end user then to decide as it was not a > direct part of building the actual archlinux template. > > I am happy to add the powerpill config instructions but if you do a basic > search on its use of aria2 that it uses its straight forward. Its a basic > config file with single line item config with very basic syntax. It would > have to be for me to get it to work LOL. > > The instruction page is 100% editable for change submissions so any errors > you see you can submit the changes to fix it. If you prefer list them here > giving me the step number and the error and I can go back and fix it. > > Tim from your lat two emails it seems the problem was solved. But I am confused how it was solved. You posted a link to this thread https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-users/tim$20w$20pacman/qubes-users/vT_ETcU5BvQ/sDhu879WDQAJ but it seems too old. May you clarify a little bit please? Best Fran
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