christoferlevich wrote:Just "looked" at arch and I have to say, it 'looks' like an ancient BBS. I am going to play with arch for a bit and if I can't get it, I'll try something else... but I will try. Only because I want the cleanest server I can get, right?
Yes, unfortunately Arch has ditched their text mode installer (I think it looked a bit like the FreeBSD installer), so now installation is done via command line. But normally you only have to do it once per machine, as it is a rolling release distro.
You should probably install PkgBrowser from the AUR to get an overview about installed/available packages, package groups, etc.
But other than that, GUI sys admin tools are not really needed on Arch; pacman, makepkg, and perhaps yaourt (for easier installing from the AUR) take care of everything (and they don't spam the terminal with messages like apt-get).
Sample commands:
- "pacman -S minetest-server" to install MT stable server from the official repo
- "pacman -Rs minetest-server" to remove MT server (including any orphaned dependencies)
- "yaourt -S minetest-git-leveldb" to install my MT git PKGBUILD from the AUR
- "pacman -Syu" to update all packages (excluding AUR)
- "yaourt -Syua" to update all packages (including AUR)