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+<h2 id="pagetitle" level="1">Quick Start - GUI</h2>
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+<p>The gui should make exploration of the possibilities offered by <em>larch</em>
+quite straightforward. The documentation should provide enough information to
+understand how a <em>larch live</em> system works, so that further customisations
+can be performed beyond those directly supported.
+</p>
+<p>The general sequence of events starts with creating a 'project', which will
+determine certain aspects of the build environment (such as where to place the
+installation files), and select a profile. The profile describes the system to be
+installed (primarily which packages, but also various other aspects). All this
+configuration information is stored in the user's home directory (~/.config/larch),
+so that it is retained from one <em>larch</em> run to the next.
+</p>
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+<ul>
+ <li>At present I only maintain a repository for 'i686', as I don't run a 64-bit
+ <em>Arch</em> machine, but as all the current <em>larch</em> packages
+ have architecture 'any', both architectures should be supported.
+ </li>
+ <li>Make sure you have 'pyqt' and 'python-pexpect' packages, as well as
+ the obvious 'python', installed.
+ </li>
+ <li>Download the latest
+ <a href="ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/larch/larch8/i686/larch-setup">
+ <strong>larch-setup</strong></a> script
+ to an empty working directory. Then run it (it is a shell script).
+ It will download and prepare the 'larch', 'liblarch' and 'larch-profiles'
+ packages so that <em>larch</em> can be run from this directory.
+ </li>
+ <li>Run './larch' in the working directory.
+ As it is a gui program, you must of course be running xorg (see
+ <a href="larch_quick-console.html">Command-Line Interface</a>
+ for use from the command line). In general you should start <em>larch</em>
+ as a normal, unprivileged user, so that the access to the configuration
+ files is as the correct user. It will ask for the <em>sudo</em>
+ password when it needs it.
+ </li>
+ <li>To build a <em>larch live</em> system you basically just have to go through
+ the tabs one after the other.
+ </li>
+ <li>The first tab allows you to create a project and select a profile. The 'mini'
+ (no <em>xorg</em>) and 'xmini' (a fairly minimal <em>xfce</em> desktop) examples
+ (from the supplied 'profiles' folder) might be good places to start.
+ The default installation path should be alright for most purposes,
+ but you might need to move it if you don't have enough space on that partition.
+ Be careful! If you put a silly path in here you might overwrite your system.
+ </li>
+ <li>The 'Installation' tab performs the installation of the system to be squashed,
+ by downloading and installing all the requested packages to the installation path
+ set for the project. You can adjust a few aspects of this process, for example
+ to use a local package mirror, or to add repositories to pacman.conf. The default
+ is to use the mirror set on the host system and also to use the host's package
+ cache, so that repeated builds don't need to download the packages all over
+ again.
+ </li>
+ <li>The 'Larchify' tab compresses the installation using squashfs, also building
+ a squashed overlay containing all the customisations necessary for the
+ <em>live</em> system and those specified in the profile.
+ </li>
+ <li>Finally the 'Medium' tab writes the prepared <em>larch</em> files to an
+ <em>iso</em> file (for CD or DVD), or to the partition of your choice (be careful!),
+ so that you end up with a bootable <em>larch</em> system.
+ </li>
+ <li>Particular things that you might want to customise even in a first test run might
+ be the supported <strong>locales</strong> and <strong>rc.conf</strong> (both on the
+ 'Larchify' tab).
+ </li>
+ <li>Further details of the customisation process are in the section
+ <a href="profiles.html">Profiles</a> and in the documentation to the individual
+ gui tabs.
+ </li>
+ <li> Share and Enjoy!</li>
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