To Chandrakant,

Thanks for your response. I thought that what you wrote about gcc might be the case.

When you refer to your opinion is to recommend the stable version, are you referring to 2016.04 even though you say you may be doing an updated release because present scripts are buggy ?

I am leaning towards using the builder 2016.04 current scripts to build aryalinux.

When you say some packages might not be old and eventually may be built with gcc6 ( or curret version of gcc ) I think you are saying then I might need 2016.08 ( or current version of aryalinux at the time ) to get those packages to work. I am not planning on installing old packages but maybe some are older and there are probably older versions in 2016.04 so unless there are a lot of older Important to the operating system running properly i am still leaning toward using 2016.04 for now and if the time comes when need 2016.08 ( or more current ) then switch at that time. I do not want to start using 2016.08 if there are things that are not compiled using gcc6 that I need are not going to work.

Since you said as I expected that i could have he startx issue with either 2016.04 or 2016.08 I think I am better off using the 2016.04 version even if scripts are a little buggy than running the risk that with 2016.08 there might be additional problems whether have startx problem or not.

Unless you think differently I will probably go with 2016.04 and hopefully either will not have startx problem or if it does happen , it can be fixed with your help without too much difficulty.

Side note- I saw on the website tha Rakesh has Prathamos.org with some disros there and there are plans for 3 more in the pipeline. How do the existing distros there and the planned ones differ from aryalinux / Are they general purpose or specialty distros and if specialty what is their specialties.

To Chandrakant,

I ran builder scripts for aryalinux 2016.04. Everything went fine until got to the step after installing sudo where runthe following command from my regular user account :

"alps install usbutils opensh gobject-introspection libxml2 desktop-file-utils shared-mime-info ccache "

This returned error no such file or directory : /var/cache/alps/scripts/open.sh

What should I do ( never got this error last time- I had received the error about shaed-mime-info last time , this time did not get that error )

It's not opensh it's openssh in the alps install list

To Chandrakant,

Thanks I corrected that but then when running alps install xserver-meta

I got this error : error executing /var/cache/alps/scripts/pcre.sh

What do I do to fix this ?

There must be more lines in the error message. Please post them. It helps in figuring out the cause of the issue.

To Chandracant

You are right there were more lines but could not scroll back the terminal output to take screenshot. However I dd a search in Google and found out that PCRE ( Perl Compatible Regression Expressions ) uses gcc-6 to compile and since the builder scripts use gcc-5 then cannot compile it.

So I continued with the build and it started building xfce but then it stopped after many trys of attempting to download something from sourceforge- it said awaiting response- no data retrieved. Retrying. See screenshot : Tried to show but cannot copy and paste the screen shot and no attachment in forum I will email you so I can attache the screenshot

To Chandracant

You are right there were more lines but could not scroll back the terminal output to take screenshot. However I dd a search in Google and found out that PCRE ( Perl Compatible Regression Expressions ) uses gcc-6 to compile and since the builder scripts use gcc-5 then cannot compile it.

So I continued with the build and it started building xfce but then it stopped after many trys of attempting to download something from sourceforge- it said awaiting response- no data retrieved. Retrying. See screenshot : Tried to show but cannot copy and paste the screen shot and no attachment in forum I will email you so I can attache the screenshot