First of all, because I am not an English speaker, please forgive my poor English.
I recommend that the new version could be more friendly to non-English speakers, such as adding Chinese language support?
For reasons known to all, mainland China cannot access Google, YouTube, twitter, facebook, and ins. . . . Is there a potential bug in China?It is not known whether the networking error during the installation of the new version is related to this.
Looking forward to archlabs getting better and better. Thank you.
Thanks Reply. During the installation process, the network connection speed is still very low, probably only 50KB per second. Modifying the /etc/pacman.d.mirrorlist file is also useless.
Yea this certainly could cause issue with some of the network checks.
Can you access something like duckduckgo?
If not, how do you test for network connectivity during a stock Arch install?
Working together I can easily change and fix things to improve it for users, just need a good place to start?
Regarding translations
If you are serious and want to help then the best way to contribute is:
For the installer:
git clone https://github.com/ARCHLabs/Installer
two directories inside: /src and trans/ you can find existing translation files here,
PLEASE use the english version for reference as the other languages also need work
make a pull request to the repo and Iāll merge your changes
most do not have translation files, they will need to be made (shell script experience required)
anywhere is a good start, so if you want to take a plunge and do it be my guest, Iāll help anywhere I can
I work full time, on my off time I do all the packages and iso building for AL, I really dont have time to go through a rewrite of everything to support translation files, however I realize that it would be nice (or even required for some). Iām more than willing to take any help I can get, but I dont want just a bunch of talk and nothing getting done, results are key.
Really appreciate the post and offers/ideas, hit me up if you still want in on some translation work and Iāll make it happen
You may also want to try modifying /mnt/install/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist but this file is first ranked with reflector to use the fastest mirrors during install, If after you still have slow connection prehaps my ranking command is flawed
Not all websites are blocked. In fact, only the government thinks that the blocked websites will be blocked, such as Google, Facebook, etc. Others have almost no problems, such as github, stackoverflow.
So I can access AL. There is almost no problem with this. It is only slightly slower. XD
But the biggest impact on me is that Google is blocked, so I can only take other measures to use the best search engine in the world. The second Android development site associated with Google is also almost inaccessible. So Android developers in China can only solve their own network problems or use mirror stations.
In addition, āVPNā is a banned word in China Network space and it is almost impossible to search for tutorials that teach you how to use VPN. = =|||
I see. I was just wondering if the Chinese government was relaxing its restrictions a little bit. If you have questions, weāll do our best to get the information for you. Iām guessing DuckDuckGo is out of the question too. My guess is that your internet is being throttled because it is being looked at before it gets to you. And as you said those sites that the government deems unsuitable are being blocked.
I merged it last night and have been getting it all integrated with the installer, I also switched any network checks that use ping google.com to use github.com instead. Would you like to test an iso @ArchZ?
Anyone having issues with al-hello not realizing that it is connected to a network? Please Connect to a Network Before Continuing keeps flashing on and off every 10-20 seconds. I can install some of the apps if I use the right click menu, but canāt install all of the apps I want after installing one item from sub menu.
I have figured out how to get around the pesky āPlease Connect to a Network Before Continuingā issue. I went to /usr/bin/al-hello then I removed the following lines by putting a hashtag in front of this line, like so:
I went to line 111 and put a hashtag at the beginning, like so:
Firstly, Iām really not sure why you are having the connection issues.
Next up, since checkConnection() is a function you only need to comment the one line where it is called.
Iām not sure how theyāre not neccesary, if you donāt have a connection to the internet, nothing in al-hello will work and itāll throw errors, it relies on downloading and installing packages