Installing Arch in 15 Minutes: Desktop

This video is about Arch Linux Part 2, where we go from command line to graphical interface. We will install Gnome / GDM, and explore a few different graphical environments along with a few core applications including Firefox / Banshee / Rhythmbox / Hexchat.

[xdxfxzx]

Please make more videos! I enjoy the way you explain everything. I have always wanted to try Arch but had a hard time figuring out the installer on my own. Thanks again :)

[MrFlawless]

Thanks for the video, you should make more videos about stuff you think new linux users should know

[joedirt]

[SOLVED] my problem!
ctr-alt-f3
login as root
-pacman -S vte3
This needed to be set in the user settings
-localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
-reboot
"This solved my non-functioning gnome-terminal"

GREAT TUTOTIAL!!!! Thank You!

[niko-pp]

Everything just works, thank you very much!
Altough had to do some extra steps like installing drivers for my touchpad to work, but that wasn't hard

There are still things I don't really understand like,
everything worked fine after reboot, but after another reboot, I couldn't get into gnome anymore, entered my password and nothing happend on gdm. So I instead of gnome I have chosen "Gnome on Wayland" and now it works again
altough I have no idea what that is tbh

[antonavy]

good tutorial on basic stuff :) Though I couldn't get past `gnome-extra`. Black screen, blinking cursor. Barely got rid of it, couldn't even load the terminal. Then package broke... :(

[MrGarrowson]

Nice video. Pretty clear explanation. However, since you did the installation on a virtual machine you didn't have to install any drivers, ( touchpad, gpu, etc..) which sometimes it can be some trouble.

[ashgupta]

Nice video. How about one on Wine or PlayOnLinux? Specifically, getting MS Office to work on linux. Thanks.

[kevinison]

I think part of the problem may be when installing the guest addon... there area  a couple of options for DKMS and arch module.... I think I should have chosen the Arch module and not the default DKMS.

[SetAblazeYourLimitations]

Hey I have a question..
What about the device drivers..the latest ones..like: the processors microfirmware, gpu drivers, touchpad and others.
The manjaro has a hardware detection tool so will it work on the vanilla arch install as well?

[TheAlcamech]

After I do systemctl enable gdm.service and systemctl start gdm.service all I get is a black screen

[Mike-eqlh]

Boot stalls after installing gnome, gdm in Arch Virtualbox container. 3d graphics enabled. It was booting before this.

[eldersprig]

should always use visudo to edit sudoers file

[SamAndrew]

I got an IP via DHCP before when I was setting up the OS in part one. Now I reboot and have no IP but eth0 shows as UP. I try to start 'ethernet-dhcp' profile for netctl, but I get this: Profile 'ethernet-dhcp' does not exist or is not readable. I just copied the example file out of /eth/netctl/examples into net/ctl/interfaces

Any ideas?

[joedirt]

Great tutorial, learned a ton... Only one issue. When finally got to desktop, I am unable to open the terminal to do any further adjustments. After scouring the forums, I found a few "false [SOLVED]" write ups, one solution was "pacman -S vte3" to revert back to orignal dependancies, however FAIL. So far this is still my issue, I am at the desktop without access to a terminal. P.S. ctr-alt-f3 got me back to level 3 console tty.

[kevinison]

Nice video, however you tend to breeze through the command line commands while explaining what they do without being clear as to what you are typing and in some cases you just continue to type in additional commands.  Makes it kind of hard to follow.

[georgiabulldogfan]

the sudo pacman -Syu command errors out everything, says it could not resolve host. Where else can i grab these from?