Yeah your criticisms are valid. We haven't had the admin here in a while.
The best time to contribute is now, while the memory of your pain is fresh. Edit that frontpage of the wiki and distill the installation instructions that you have managed to glean.
I will do that. It's been my habit to take lots of notes when trying out new stuff, so no worries about forgetting. :) I will distill it as well as I can and start making some contributions to the wiki. In the absence of an active admin here, hopefully the wiki will start showing up on top of Google Arc searches.
Added an Installing Arc section to the wiki. It's very Ubuntu-centric right now and I will try to expand coverage in the future.
It doesn't yet show up on the top page of a Google search for "install Arc Lisp" but hopefully it will, and hopefully ahead of the Arc Forum | Install page. : )
