Manjaro XFCE guidelines for PB

[fsw]

For the brave of you that like to poke around with an Arch based distro

This is what you have to do to get PureBasic working on Manjaro XFCE 0.8.5:

- N O T H I N G -

Just download PureBasic and extract it.

At least up until now I haven't found anything missing.
I think it's because QTCreator is already installed and with that all the libraries gcc needs for it.

As soon I find that a library is missing I will edit this post.

Enjoy



EDIT
1111 posts in 10 years - man am I lame or what...

[davido]

Thanks, fsw.

I think I'll try Manjaro XFCE as installing Linux on other distributions always gives me a little trouble.

[Kuron]

Thanks for the heads up. I will check this out.

[fsw]

After you download and install Manjaro XFCE 0.8.5 there will be ONE update that is a catch-22 because pacman will be updated (pacman 4.1).
See here: http://manjaro.org/2013/04/18/stable-re ... acman-4-1/.
Bottom line: Instead of using the graphical pacman GUI (Pamac) to do the update, edit pacman.conf and use pacman in the terminal.

disable SyncFirst in your /etc/pacman.conf for this update and use pacman -Syu as normal.

[davido]

Following your post I have been using the KDE version of Manjaro Linux.

It works just as you said the XFCE version did.

fsw: Thanks again. Still amazed!

[fsw]

Glad it worked for you.

Now 0.8.5.1 is out which takes care of the last catch-22 I mentioned.
(if someone wants to start from scratch...)
But being a rolling release Manjaro is always uptodate.

They have the following repository structure:

core
extra
community
multilib (only on x86_64 systems)

The repositories are bundled in branches:

stable
testing
unstable

I'm using stable and very satisfied.
Love it.