[Assist] Problem with installing Parabola on Yeeloong

[Szymon Olewniczak]

> I installed it via pacman, but it fails to load libpng shared object,
> saying
> 
> netsurf: error while loading shared libraries: libpng15.so.15: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
I have the same issue with i3. The problem is probably caused by using
the newest netsurf with old libpng. You need to upgrade libpng with:
s pacman -Sy libpng
Or better yet upgrade whole system.

> I gave up using gdm and run startxfce4.  X starts up and seemingly
> works fine, except that I get corrupted screen if you move windows.
> The problem is no matter how many times I reinstall DBus it does not
> work at all.  I cannot use systemctl, nm-applet, or many other useful
> programs.  For example, systemctl says
Once again do you really need nm-applet? If you don't want to do some
complexed tasks with your connection(3G modems, vps) I would
recommend netctl(check arch wiki). netctl is command line application
but it's simple and well documented so I believe you won't have problem
with using it and you can save your RAM and CPU. Alternativly if you
want something with GUI, use wicd it's also much lighter than
NetworkManager.

> Failed to get D-Bus connection: No connection to service manager.
Did you try to run systemctl start dbus? I've had simillar issue on my
yeelong but I don't remember what have I done to solve it. I would try
to recall it.
> I noticed that every time I run pacman it warns me saying
> 
> waring: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 19: diective 'SyncFirst' in
> section 'options' not recognized.
> I have not edited the corresponding section of the config file.
I've had the same issue and I've just comented out line 19 in
/etc/pacman.conf and everything was working well.
Regards,
Szymon