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Manjaro XFCE guidelines for PB

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:24 pm
by fsw
For the brave of you that like to poke around with an Arch based distro :mrgreen:

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

:shock: - N O T H I N G - :shock:

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

8)

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

Re: Manjaro XFCE guidelines for PB

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:46 pm
by davido
Thanks, fsw. :D

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

Re: Manjaro XFCE guidelines for PB

Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 8:41 pm
by Kuron
Thanks for the heads up. I will check this out.

Re: Manjaro XFCE guidelines for PB

Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 11:44 pm
by 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.

Re: Manjaro XFCE guidelines for PB

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:50 pm
by 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!

Re: Manjaro XFCE guidelines for PB

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:26 pm
by 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. :mrgreen: