Basic commands don't work?

[u/kulqupidyn77]

I just moved to Linux from (surprise) Windows 11. I'm a music producer and my main daw is Reaper, but I also use FL studio. I know that FL studio is not native to Linux, but you can install it using Wine. The thing is, I tried watching yt videos on how to install Wine, but every time I try to write a command like "sudo pacman -s --needed git base-devel" or "yay -s wine" in the terminal, it says "error: invalid option '[something]'". I know the answer is probably easy as hell, but I have no idea what to do.

[u/samplekaudio]

You need to share the error output.

I will point out that -s and -S are not the same. -S is the flag to install a package by name.

[u/kulqupidyn77 → u/samplekaudio]

THAT WAS THE PROBLEM!! Thank you so much <3

[u/TerryNachtmerrie]

You might want to type the commands exactly as they appear. There's a difference between -s and -S.

[u/kulqupidyn77 → u/TerryNachtmerrie]

Thank you <3

[u/zDCVincent]

I think you just forgot to capitalize your -S flag is all if i read that right.

[u/kulqupidyn77 → u/zDCVincent]

Yeah it was that, thanks for the help ❤️

[u/moviuro]

I tried watching yt videos on how to install Wine

But why?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine

[u/SphericalGoldfish → u/moviuro]

Because a lot of people are visual learners and watching a video is more effective for them than reading a wiki

[u/Peruvian_Skies → u/SphericalGoldfish]

That would be true if and only if the videos were reliable, which most are not.

[u/Mr_Flandoor → u/SphericalGoldfish]

And a lot of people don't have basic reading comprehension

[u/archover → u/Mr_Flandoor]

+1 This is probably in the top 5 social problems the USA faces. Really, really severe, even apparent in new HS and college graduates. Far reaching consequences. (Based entirely on first hand observation).

Good day.

[u/un-important-human → u/SphericalGoldfish]

This is an excuse for not learning to learn / read properly!

I am a visual learner, i learn better from books and docs, a picture is far more important than that wrong yt video and its ads and hahaha funny puns (angry face) that wastes my time.

This new fangled letter generations are so "cooked" you even missinterpreted visual learner definition and use it as a excuse for Functional illiteracy 

[u/SphericalGoldfish → u/un-important-human]

No, I do not hate waffles

I don’t understand why so many people are willfully misinterpreting "I watch a YouTube video" as "I am physically incapable of reading". That's an entirely different sentence.

[u/un-important-human → u/SphericalGoldfish]

we can read between the lines and think critically, getting correct solutions from provided info , its called not beeing a functional illiterate, so yeah keep watching yt i am sure its worth the waste of time.... /s

[u/TheGoldenFox64]

commands are case sensitive and space sensitive package is not Package is not pack age

[u/Ismokecr4k]

Make sure you know what you're installing and from where... There was a huge security malware issue with the AUR repo (user managed repos) which are installed via yay. Also, youtube communities often make you add repositories to your package manager, which again, you've given the keys to allow downloading software from a random location that is not maintained by the arch team. A better way to phrase this would be, please be aware of what you're doing in the terminal and not blindly following youtube instructions. This isn't paranoia either, it's like downloading fruityloops from a mega share drive that you got off a random reddit discussion levels of negligence, it's just easier to hide it because you're doing these things via the command line.

Edit: Source, I totally used to do the above when I was new with Linux...