Adding Packages to the RaspberryPi

[jwhitmore]

Hello all,

Just installed RuneAudio on a B+ RaspberriPi and loving it. I was thinking of adding a few packages to the system so that I could use it as a NAS storage device. I had thought I'd just use apt to install packages but apt ain't installed so just wondering what is the base OS and which package manager is the one to use?

[cmh714]

pacman is the package manager for archlinux.

so pacman -Syu or check the man pages

[jwhitmore]

Deadly thanks a million for that. Never used Arch before so a little intro is in order.

[cmh714]

np and I hear ya, was there too....another damn flavor to figure out.

But overall it works well and fast.

[jwhitmore]

Just out of interest is there a repo that I should set? I was trying to install emacs and sudo but both are giving me loads of 404 errors when I try to install them with pacman -S

[cmh714]

none specifically that I am aware of....you can use nano or vi for editing, since they are there already. and I generally just use root so dont have sudo myself.

maybe the devs can give more pointers for you.

[aj78]

Try pacman -Syu first, before trying to install anything.