From The Chakra Project

Test the Chakra ISO

Chakra is always looking for people to test our live media for errors and omissions. To become a tester, simply download the latest Chakra Live Media and follow these guidelines:

• Test on a real computer, not a virtual machine.
• When testing, enable desktop effects (System Settings > Desktop Effects > Enable desktop effects at startup). They are not enabled by default. Test this both in live mode and installed system.
• Test using as many options as possible. Try it with both free and non-free drivers, and try some different languages as well.
• When testing installation, try a number of different hard disc setups (GPT & MS-DOS partition table), and use different filesystems. For instructions setting up with GPT: Setting up with GPT
• When reporting problems, provide as much information as possible. Read the installation logs, error logs, and boot.log as appropriate and include the information contained there when reporting.
• Providing a complete list of steps to reproduce a problem is always helpful.
• Remember to check sound, correct mirrors set (perform a pacman -Syu) & any normal procedure you'd do on a fresh install.
• Always provide a list of the hardware you tested on.

It is not always needed to use your main/internal HDD to do a test install on, any external USB HDD or stick can be used too, see Install to USB HDD or flash

You can report your findings either at the mailing list, Chakra IRC or at the Chakra Forums. When reporting in the forums, it will be helpful to make your forum signature your hardware profile.

Please subscribe to the test-squad mailing list, for any news, updates, internal ISO's etc.

Enable the Testing Repository

We try to keep our stable repositories as rock solid as possible. This is why we have the "testing" repository. New packages first get into testing, so we can check them before they are moved to stable. It's obvious that the more users we have on testing, the better.

As a bonus, you get to use all the latest package updates in core and platform and get the newest KDE SC's, before everyone else!

To switch to the testing repo, just edit your /etc/pacman.conf and add this above the other repos:

[testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

If you are using the lib32 repo, you also need to switch to the lib32-testing repo, by adding it below the testing one:

[lib32-testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

After these, do a full "sudo pacman -Syu".