new Pinebook Pro, complete confusion
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I just received my machine in the mail today. Out of the box I was able to get it running. The wifi works. A Firefox button appears on the dashboard. I can run Firefox. I accessed my university email. This was all encouraging.

My next order of business on all new machines is to install LaTeX (Texlive), emacs, and Auctex. I also make sure there is a PDF viewer and word processor (Libreoffice).

I tried to install Texlive with pacman and got a slew of "error: failed retrieving file" responses. I read a little online about what the problem could be, and the main suggestion was to update my mirrors with

$ sudo pacman-mirrors -g
$ sudo pacman-mirrors -f 5

and such things. I tried these, and it didn't help.

I tried installing emacs and ran into the same problem. I cannot retrieve anything.

Then I tried installing Libreoffice and was told that

:: Libreoffice-still and Libreoffice-fresh are in conflict. Remove Libreoffice-fresh?

This surprised me, because I cannot detect Libreoffice anywhere on the machine. I opened the filesystem navigator and searched for Libreoffice and found nothing. Then I searched for Firefox and also found nothing, even though I am able to run Firefox.

So basically I cannot use this computer. I cannot install the software I need (or any software), and I cannot locate the software that I already have (except for Fierfox, by launching it from the dashboard icon).

I have used linux (Debain primarily) and BSD (free BSD primarily) systems for many years and cannot understand why this is so completely different from anything I've ever seen before.

I want this to work out. I am attracted to the Pinebook philosophy.
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new Pinebook Pro, complete confusion - by Yehuda - 06-01-2021, 11:11 PM
RE: new Pinebook Pro, complete confusion - by wdt - 06-02-2021, 10:07 AM
RE: new Pinebook Pro, complete confusion - by wdt - 06-02-2021, 10:52 AM
RE: new Pinebook Pro, complete confusion - by wdt - 06-02-2021, 12:59 PM

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