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Contents 1 Installation 1.1 Installing to computers without a CD drive 1.2 Installing in vmware 2 Ark Linux Desktop 2.1 Applications 2.2 Troubleshooting 2.3 Look and feel 2.4 Installing binary drivers 3 Configuration 3.1 Superuser 3.2 Wireless Networking 3.3 Ark Linux as a web server 4 Mini HOWTO 4.1 plugins 5 Manual

Installation

Installing to computers without a CD drive

• Installing from a USB memory stick

Installing in vmware

For some people, installing Ark Linux in vmware works out of the box (As of vmware server version 1.0.3 build-4 4356, make sure you simulate an IDE drive -- vmware SCSI drives are not detected by the installer due to a bug in vmware that we cannot fix because of VMWare's license policy), others need some more tweaks (probably depending on the version of vmware being used and/or the underlying hardware and OS. If you run into problems, check out Setting Up Ark Linux in VMware.

Ark Linux Desktop

Applications

• What Linux applications can replace my favorite Windows and Mac applications? See the section entitled Finding Applications!
• How to get Windows applications to run
• How to install vmware on Ark Linux

Troubleshooting

• Recovering from failed graphics driver installations
• Using the generic VESA graphics driver

Look and feel

• Changing the bootup splash screen

Installing binary drivers

Due to the restrictive license on some drivers, we do not include them in Ark Linux and we can not provide support for them (we don't have the source, so we can't fix any problems that might turn up). We do, however, try to make the installation as painless as possible:

• Installing the nvidia driver
• Broadcom wireless chips
• InProComm IPN2220 wireless chips
• Marvell wireless chips
• Atheros wireless chips

Configuration

Superuser

Sooner or later, you will need to go to superuser status. This is required for many tweaks, workarounds, printer-driver installations, and other operations in any Linux. In a high-quality Linux, superuser status is only used when needed, for the characteristic strong resistance to viruses and spyware available with Linux.

In the default Ark installation, it is not possible to log on as superuser (customarily, username "root"), as an added security measure. But to keep things simpler, one can simply go to the K menu, System submenu, and choose "Command Line Interpreter - Super User Mode". Once this is done, if root login capability is desired in the future, all you have to do is run the 'passwd' command to set a root password, and root login becomes possible using that password.

It is also possible in the default Ark to use the file manager as superuser. It's in K menu, System submenu, "File Manager - Super User Mode". One can edit any file on the system this way, which can be dangerous; but it can also be rather convenient.

Wireless Networking

Wired networking with DCHP is quite straightforward. Wireless, not so. So, we have here a Wireless Networking HOWTO!

Ark Linux as a web server

• Installing Tomcat on Ark Linux

Mini HOWTO

plugins

Enable Flash Support in Konqueror

Using SUN Java in Ark Linux

Manual

Please see the (slightly outdated) User Guide for a manual. A wiki rewrite has begun and can be found here: Ark Linux Walkthrough