Installing a desktop on Arch ARM

[paulgureghian1]

I installed Arch ARM on an sd card and am able to boot to a login. i can login as root. trying to install a desktop. ive tried many things and they all failed. any ideas ? thanks

[fruitoftheloom]

I installed Arch ARM on an sd card and am able to boot to a login. i can login as root. trying to install a desktop. ive tried many things and they all failed. any ideas ? thanks

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pacman -S lxde-common

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman

[paulgureghian1]

Is Arch still included with NOOBS ? doesnt seem to be anymore.

[fruitoftheloom]

Is Arch still included with NOOBS ? doesnt seem to be anymore.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 3&t=142574

[paulgureghian1]

after I install lxde-common, how to boot into it ?

[fruitoftheloom]

after I install lxde-common, how to boot into it ?

http://www.tsunami.nl/?p=11

[paulgureghian1]

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[paulgureghian1]

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[paulgureghian1]

how to get past "no screens found" ?

[pepedog]

1/ install xf86-video-fbdev
2/ don't run X as root

[Koeshi]

Do you have a screen attached or VNC installed? PuTTY by itself is not going to render a desktop.