Introduction

Before you start to read this document, you should know some important things about how to read it.

1. Things that you should really read

First there are some part of this document that you should really read, to understand how frugalware is working and how to administrate it.

Important references to read:

This introduction ;)
How to use pacman-g2.
How to manage service.

2. Running console commands

Along this document, there are boxed text that shows you a console log. These logs are important and requires quite some attentions since most off the time you are expected to run them and get the same output.

$ echo foo bar
foo bar

This is how a console log look. Lets details it so you understand what means.

The echo foo bar part is what you should type and it's the command. The following line foo bar is the ouput of the previous command.

You may wonder what differenciate the command from the output. You see that in front of the command there is a $. This indicates that it's a command line, but there is more meaning in this symbol. This symbol can change depending on the user priviledges required to run the command.

Here is the list of the common prefix for the console commands:

$ indicates that any user can run the command. Most of the time it means you have to run it with your user.
user$ indicates that a the specified user priviledge are required to run this command. Usually this is necessary for security reasons.

You can get an interactive shell for this user, replacing user with the wanted user name, by issuing:
```
$ su - user
```
# indicates that the root users priviledges are required to run this command. Usually this is required to manage the system configuration.

You can get an interactive shell for root running:
```
$ su -
```