"Using Manjaro for Beginners" needs correction

Hello community,

in the last chapter “Manjaro User Guide” on https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Using_Manjaro_for_Beginners there is a link noted to the local User Guide (“/usr/share/doc/manjaro/Beginner_User_Guide.pdf”). Unfortunately the folder and the document do not exist in a normal installation.

The link to an online version (“https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro/storage/Manjaro-User-Guide.pdf”) leads also nowhere.

Could you please correct the wiki or distribute the folder and file?

Best regards,
varomanja

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Hello community,

I thought, someone would fix this in the wiki. But as it is a wiki I wanted to fix this myself.
But neither my forum account works for logging in, nor creating a new account works “Incorrect or missing CAPTCHA.”; and I tried the URL, thtat was wanted with and without the “https://”.
Is the account creation broken? Is there a better place to post this?

Best regards,
varomanja

Not broken, but restricted to the members of the @wiki group. They are the Wiki maintainers, and they will now be notified. :wink:

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It’s true

The document mentioned is also missing from my installation.
I assume it was once part of the installation and was then removed from the ISOs at some point. It’s only logical that it was also removed from the website.

In my installation, it contains:

ls -lA /usr/share/manjaro
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  manjaro-hello

ls -lA /usr/share/manjaro/manjaro-hello
drwxr-xr-x    - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  img
drwxr-xr-x    - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  pages
.rw-r--r--  267 root root 2025-04-07 09:19  base.css
.rw-r--r--  31k root root 2025-04-07 09:19  manjaro-hello.glade
.rw-r--r-- 1,2k root root 2025-04-07 09:19  preferences.json
.rw-r--r--   24 root root 2025-04-07 09:19  style.css

ls -lA /usr/share/manjaro/manjaro-hello/img
.rw-r--r--  220 root root 2025-04-07 09:19  external-link.png
.rw-r--r--  913 root root 2025-04-07 09:19  facebook.png
.rw-r--r--  942 root root 2025-04-07 09:19  reddit.png
.rw-r--r-- 2,1k root root 2025-04-07 09:19  x.png
.rw-r--r-- 4,6k root root 2025-04-07 09:19  youtube.png

ls -lA /usr/share/manjaro/manjaro-hello/pages
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  da
lrwxrwxrwx - root root 2025-04-07 09:19  da-DK -> da
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  de
lrwxrwxrwx - root root 2025-04-07 09:19  de-DE -> de
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  en
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  es
lrwxrwxrwx - root root 2025-04-07 09:19  es-AR -> es
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  fr
lrwxrwxrwx - root root 2025-04-07 09:19  fr-FR -> fr
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  hu
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  it
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  ko-KR
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  nl
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  pl
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  pt-BR
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  pt-PT
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  ro-RO
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  ru
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  sv
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  tr
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2025-04-12 14:28  zh-CN
...

No pdf at all

What to do ? :footprints:

Manjaro User Guide used to be included on Live ISOs but has not been updated since 2020

As this guide was produced by a former Manjaro Team member, who possibly left not long after the 2020 version was produced, this oversight should likely be referred back to @philm directly.

Copyright © 2020 the Manjaro Development Team :eyes:


Obviously, much of the content is either outdated or no longer relevant, and the screenshots throughout could use updating:

This doesn’t seem a particularly difficult project to maintain, albeit likely time consuming. Optionally, a few more translations could also be a welcome enhancement.

It makes little sense to update the Wiki link until the project has been re-established. Completely removing the respective paragraph from the Wiki for the time being makes better sense. @wiki

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Thank you for the clarification, @Aragorn

And thank you for this complete answer, @soundofthunder

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Has been done

image

:footprints:

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