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newbie needs help installing things SOLVED (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Okay so I just finished struggling through my archlinux install. I have arch Linux with hyprland now.

But I cannot figure out how to download anything.

At minimum i need a browser, and git. But I cannot figure out web downloads in kitty.

Edit: nmtui to connect to WiFi, and then a reboot solved it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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 ”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hmm.

I connected to my internet using iwctl.

But yeah the ping returned a failure so I guess I'm not connected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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