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Creating Guides for newcomers #298

Open AresAndy opened 4 years ago

AresAndy commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I'm probably going to state the obvious here, but plan9port really needs guides for newcomers. I mean, I'm not completely ignorant on the *nix topic, yet I'm still trying to understand why my install still points to /usr/local/plan9 even though I followed the instructions step by step. greping the project real quick shows that the moveplan9 script does not work, shebang paths and all still point to /usr/local/plan9. Google+ is down and the Groups is either unreachable or not existing, and that's why I'm writing here.. All the documentation one can find is:

I would really like to use acme for all my work, and I can't use it at all without plumbing per se.

Thanks

nsajko commented 4 years ago

This is how Archlinux copes with hardcoded paths: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/plan9port#n42

And you should execute plan9port programs with the PLAN9 environment variable correctly set to the absolute path to the plan9port tree and with "$PLAN9/bin" in the PATH environment variable. As done here: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/plan9.sh?h=packages/plan9port

AresAndy commented 4 years ago

This is how Archlinux copes with hardcoded paths: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/plan9port#n42

I am on Arch, but to not further complicate things with root permissions I'm using the repo directly. Anyway, shouldn't the INSTALL script do that already on its own?

Also, I have the two global variables set properly both on bash and fish, but all my attempts at using 9p <command> yield Connection refused . I can launch the plumber and acme just fine, I just can't query/alter the 9p system (configs, fonts, etc..)