arch

First step is to ensure your pacman configuration is good.  So view your /etc/pacman.conf.  Then do the following: pacman -Syy # (Forces a reload of the package repositories) pacman -Syu # (Update the installed packages) groupadd xbmc useradd -m -d /home/xbmc -g xbmc -G audio,video xbmc passwd xbmc New Password: xxxxx pacman -S xbmc # … Read more

This catalogs my experience with installing archlinux. Which of course, I’ve never used before, so it should be a nice learning curve. First off, navigate to the archlinux website, and download the iso. Then put that on a USB Flash drive. I used the following command to do that: dd if=archlinux-2012.09.07-dual.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M Next boot … Read more