Darcs is a distributed version control system that is ideal for small to medium-sized projects. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Darcs which is from http://darcs.net/ on Arch Linux.
Before we get started with the installation process, there are a few prerequisites that we need to take care of.
To get started, we need to update our Arch Linux system. Open up the terminal on your system and run the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
This will update all the packages on your system to their latest version.
Now that our system is updated, we can proceed with the installation of Darcs.
Run the following command to install Darcs using the Pacman package manager:
sudo pacman -S darcs
This will download and install the latest version of Darcs on your system.
To verify that Darcs is installed correctly, run the following command in your terminal:
darcs --version
If the installation was successful, you should see the version of Darcs installed on your system printed on the console.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Darcs on Arch Linux. We updated the system, installed Darcs using the Pacman package manager, and verified the installation. Now you can start using Darcs to manage your projects easily.
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