Chakra Linux - Installing applications
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As you install Chakra u have to reboot the system. Now start installing other applications you want.
#1. upgrade your system and database
for that you can use the command
sudo pacman -Syu
to upgrade database
sudo pacman -Syy
if you get an error saying you have to upgrade pacman to perform your operation, upgrade pacman first,
sudo pacman -S pacman
Then you can upgrade your system and database
#2. Now we have to install a meta-package, it isn't really a package, its a script that install whole bunch of packages in one shot.
Now we're installing a meta package called "base-devel", which installs a basic set of development tools.
sudo pacman -S base-devel
#3. In order to install packages from CCR you should install ccr and base-devel first.
To install CCR
sudo pacman -S ccr
After you installed ccr and base-devel make sure you upgrade the system and database, then reboot your system.
Now, time to install applications you want.
#4. QT applications, these packages are in repositories, you can easily install them by typing
sudo pacman -S package_name
#5. GTK applications, open bundle manager and install from it.
If your bundle manager is empty don't worry! after searching on internet what i found was Chakra has added a new repository called "extra", which contains apps in bundle manager.
To activate "extra" repository, type the command
sudo pacman -Sy filesystem-extra
to check the apps in extra repository, use
sudo pacman -Sl extra
try to install a GTK app u want
ex- sudo pacman -Sy gimp
After activating "extra" repository if you get an error when you try to install a GTK application(gimp) it means still your extra repositories are not activated. This happened to me and what i did was i edited my "pacman.conf".
Open pacman.conf as root,
Path to file : /etc/pacman.conf
Paste this in repository section
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Then try to activate again using "sudo pacman -Sy filesystem-extra" and upgrade system and database.
Now i hope you can easily install GTK apps you want, Mine works like a charm
#6. To install CCR packages use
ccr -S package_name
You don't need to be root for this.
Few commands to install some important applications
Web browser-Chromium
sudo pacman -S chromium
Web browser-Firefox
sudo pacman -S firefox-kde
emacs
sudo pacman -S emacs
VIM
sudo pacman -S vim
Java
sudo pacman -S openjdk
MySQL
sudo pacman -S mysql
When your trying to install MySQL error will come saying you can't install MySQL its conflicting with MariaDB, if you want to install MySQL you'll have to remove MariaDB.
The Chakra Project decided to switch Chakra's default SQL engine to MariaDB. The upcoming KDE SC 4.10 will be built against it.
Therefore system needs MariaDB, when you try to remove MariaDB they wont allow you saying akonadi wants MariaDB. You can't remove akonadi because system wants it,therefore to remove MariaDB use
sudo pacman -Rdd mariadb
Obviously akonadi will miss the dependency but will work.
To install MySql
sudo pacman -Sdd mysql
After installing MySQL you should run the setup script as root:
systemctl start mysqld
mysql_secure_installation
Then restart MySQL:
systemctl restart mysqld
To start MySQL automatically at boot run:
systemctl enable mysqld
To login as root to MySQL's command line tool use
mysql -p -u root
The MySQL server does not listen on the TCP port 3306 by default. To allow (remote) TCP connections, comment the following line in /etc/mysql/my.cnf
skip-networking
Remember to edit /etc/hosts.allow by adding the following lines:
mysqld: ALL : ALLOW
mysqld-max: ALL : ALLOW
To get more details about MySQL click here.
NetBeans
sudo pacman -S netbeans
Geany
ccr -S geany
Team viewer
ccr -S teamviewer
GIMP
sudo pacman -S gimp
Skype
sudo pacman -Sy skype
click here to get more packages you want .
Enjoy Chakra as you want it to be...
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