Need help installing Arch

[Ujee]

I tried to install arch on a VM since someone told me it super beginner friendly and perfect for a newbie like me (i think I was being trolled)
I made a non-root user and made it a sudoes using visudo. I want gnome.
I ran the following:

sudo pacman -Syu

sudo pacman -S xorg xorg-apps

both of them failed to download/retrieve files (invalid url for server)
the same happens when in root I run the same command without sudo

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Ujee said:

I tried to install arch on a VM since someone told me it super beginner friendly and perfect for a newbie like me (i think I was being trolled)

Arch is one of the most difficult distros to setup if you have never used Linux before. There is no installer and you need to know what packages you need and what needs configured. The installation Guide starts here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide

 

6 hours ago, Ujee said:

I made a non-root user and made it a sudoes using visudo. I want gnome.
I ran the following:

sudo pacman -Syu

sudo pacman -S xorg xorg-apps

both of them failed to download/retrieve files

To give a valid answer we need to know where you are in the install process.

 

Really if your looking for beginner friendly, Try PopOS! or Ubuntu.

[xAcid9]

19 minutes ago, Ujee said:

I tried to install arch on a VM since someone told me it super beginner friendly and perfect for a newbie like me (i think I was being trolled)

Yes, you're being trolled. 
Try Manjaro KDE, it's based on Arch and quite beginner friendly. 

[Switchboy]

If I would have to guess it would seem that you don't have a working network stack on Arch.

 

try the command  "ping google.com"

 

The best way to fix it is boot the ISO of the install medium in the virtual machine and mount your primary partion again (as you did installing it) and use the command arch-chroot to start the command line in your current installation.

 

However I would advise you to just try a more beginner friendly distro to get your linux feet wet. Min,Pop or Ubuntu should do fine

 

 

 

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

37 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

Arch is one of the most difficult distros to setup if you have never used Linux before.

Literally what i thought when reading the title "a beginner trying to install arch??? Literally one of the hardest distros to install"

 

Yea arch is one of the hardest distros to install, from my rather general knowledge on linux distros, linux mint is what id reccomend for beginners cause its beginner friendly, makes me regret jumping onto slax linux without knowing anything whatsoever about linux and failing to install a f ing web browser xD  maybe if i ditch w7 ill use mint instead of jumping on some random ass distro with no knowledge on linux whatsoever

[Master Disaster]

just run arch-install from the live cd.

[Sauron]

4 hours ago, Ujee said:

I tried to install arch on a VM since someone told me it super beginner friendly and perfect for a newbie like me (i think I was being trolled)
I made a non-root user and made it a sudoes using visudo. I want gnome.
I ran the following:

sudo pacman -Syu

sudo pacman -S xorg xorg-apps

both of them failed to download/retrieve files (invalid url for server)
the same happens when in root I run the same command without sudo

If you're in the installer right now, you shouldn't be installing a desktop environment. You should just follow the wiki's installation guide. Even so, for a complete beginner Arch is the "wrong" choice.

 

To answer the question directly however, the reason you're getting this issue is that either 1) you don't have an internet connection to your VM, which you need to install Arch, or 2) you have the wrong server addresses in your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file. Explanations on how to fix both these issues are available on the official wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Connect_to_the_internet

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Select_the_mirrors