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You may use pacman to install packages in your Arch
To install packages you need to use pacman -S <pkgname>. For example to install Firefox:
pacman -S firefox
You can also install many packages once, for example:
pacman -S firefox git ruby keepassxc
Remember that you need root privileges to install apps with pacman
How do I have root privileges? Do I just use sudo?
Yep, sudo gives your user root privileges
using
sudo pacman -S
I get a fatal error from every mirror it attempts to download through.
This can be 2 things:
Try run ping www.google.com and see if you have connection. If you don't you need to connect your PC to the internet
Otherwise, you have to set the mirrors. So go to https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/ and select the best location to you, then in the file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist you paste the content you got when clicking Generate List at this site I mentioned before
Then run sudo pacman -Syyu to update everything and then try install your apps again
Thank you!
So far I've determined I'm definitely not connected to internet.
Unfortunately i cannot seem to connect.
I've tried iwctl, and also nmtui.
I dont know if I'm describing this right but both connect without error for a bit. But the second I go to use the WiFi it disconnects.
Edit: rebooting after connecting seems to have solved it.
Well, this is strange...
You said you're using both iwctl and nmtui, and maybe that's the issue, cause you're configuring 2 distinct apps to handle your connection and I think they can conflict with each other
Choose 1 and disable the other
For example, let's suppose you wanna keep iwd, so enable it with
sudo systemctl enable --now iwd.service
And disable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager.service
Reboot your system
However I suggest you to take a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration
sudo pacman -S
is virtually the only command I used as a beginner.
But that said, you may install from the AUR using yay.
I found out previously just use yay. Don't do sudo yay. It's not necessary and not 100% of AUR packages are guaranteed to be clean: omitting sudo will keep them out of root.
Does internet work? You can check by running “ping archlinux.org” in a terminal, (Ctrl C to stop it). If you are connected to internet you could search for packages using the “pacman -Ss <e. g. chromium>”, and or install by using “sudo pacman -S ”
Hmm.
I connected to my internet using iwctl.
But yeah the ping returned a failure so I guess I'm not connected.
It’s possible you may be specifying the wrong device? Try iwctl, and then “device list” to see other options. I always seem to have two or three, with only one working. More info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iwd#iwctl
I would do:
pacman -S --needed firefox
Instead.
You can replace pacman with AUR helper (I'd suggest installing Paru or YAY) if you're using one.
BTW, for AUR helpers, you don't use sudo.