[Solved][RPi] Installing a Desktop Environment

[mOh19973]

Hey,

I'm installing Arch Linux Arm for the first time on my Raspberry Pi through the NOOBS SD Card. Upon boot i get into the login and password which are "root". I used the commands:
wifi-menu wlan0 ( connecting to my wifi)
pacman -Syy
pacman -Syu
pacman -S cinnamon xorg xorg-xinit
nano ~\.xinitrc : "exec cinnamon-session"
startx
It just wouldn't start.

Also i tried installing both LXDE and SLIM by adding the commands:
pacman -S lxde (slim)
systemctl enable lxde(slim).service

But still it doesn't work.

So my question is how can I install an DE and boot it on my Raspberry Pi running Arch Linux Arm?
I would like please a detailed guide on how to do this.

Thanks in advance.

[WarheadsSE]

pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xf86-video-fbdev

Installing ALL of the xorg group is a huge amount of stuff, but hey, not my system.

[mOh19973]

Tried your step still same error that i want to fix:
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 5: /usr/bin/X : No such file or directory
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Bad file descriptor
xinit: server error

I want to solve this please

[WarheadsSE]

Yeah, you're doing something wrong. X is part of xorg-server, so I don't know what you screwed up, but you did.

[mOh19973]

Do I need stuff other than the packages you listed before? I've downloaded as you said but with gnome-shell this time and entered "exec gnome-session" and still same error. And this is my fifth clean install i'm not doing anything besides this command. When i do "pacman -Syu" do i replace everything in the system or keep stuff as they are (heirloom and others)?

[mOh19973]

Turns out i just needed to update my packages... Well thanks anyways.