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Arch Install

Connect to Internet

If you are using wifi, use iwd

device list
station *device* get-networks
station *d

Install Guide

  1. Turn on parallel downloads sed -i "s/^#ParallelDownloads = 5$/ParallelDownloads = 15/" /etc/pacman.conf

  2. Install archlinux keyring pacman --noconfirm -Sy archlinux-keyring

  3. Load layout, set time

loadkeys us
timedatectl set-ntp true
  1. Create ext4, efi, swap partition
lsblk
cfdisk /dev/sdx or /dev/nvme0x

# Efi partition
mkfs.fat -F32 $efipartition

# Swap partition
mkswap $swappartition
swapon $swappartition

# ext4 partition
mkfs.ext4 $partition

  1. Mount linux partition to /mnt mount $partition /mnt

  2. Pacstrap

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware
  1. genstab
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
  1. chroot
arch-chroot /mnt
  1. set timezone
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata /etc/localtime
  1. set hardware clock from system clock
hwclock --systohc
  1. set locale
echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf
echo "KEYMAP=us" > /etc/vconsole.conf
  1. set hostname
echo $hostname > /etc/hostname
echo "127.0.0.1       localhost" >> /etc/hosts
echo "::1             localhost" >> /etc/hosts
echo "127.0.1.1       $hostname.localdomain $hostname" >> /etc/hosts
  1. Initramfs
mkinitcpio -P
  1. Set root password
passwd
  1. install grub
pacman --noconfirm -S grub efibootmgr os-prober
mkdir /boot/efi
mount $efipartition /boot/efi

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=archlinux --recheck

sed -i 's/quiet/pci=noaer/g' /etc/default/grub
sed -i 's/GRUB_TIMEOUT=5/GRUB_TIMEOUT=0/g' /etc/default/grub

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  1. Install all the required user packages
pacman -S --noconfirm xorg-server xorg-xprop xorg-xkill xorg-xsetroot xorg-xinit \
    noto-fonts noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-cjk ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd ttf-font-awesome \
    awesome-terminal-fonts bat libnotify dunst ntfs-3g \
    jq mpv ncdu maim transmission-cli yt-dlp cowsay \
    pacman-contrib pavucontrol rsync ripgrep ueberzug ffmpegthumbnailer python-pywal \
    imlib2 xdotool xwallpaper zip unzip wget pcmanfm \
    fzf man-db pipewire pipewire-pulse xcompmgr pamixer \
    xclip sxhkd imagemagick lf connman wpa_supplicant git dash arc-gtk-theme papirus-icon-theme \
    neovim lua rustup xdg-user-dirs mpd ncmpcpp unclutter \
    zsh zsh-autosuggestions zathura zathura-pdf-poppler
  1. Enable networkmanager or connman
# network manager
systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

# connman
systemctl enable connman.service
  1. set shell
rm /bin/sh
ln -s dash /bin/sh
  1. Set user permissions
echo "%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
  1. Create user
useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/zsh $username
passwd $username
  1. Setup dotfiles
cd $HOME
git clone --separate-git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles git@github.com:krolyxon/dotfiles.git tmpdotfiles
rsync --recursive --verbose --exclude '.git' tmpdotfiles/ $HOME/
rm -r tmpdotfiles
  1. dwm : Window Manager
git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:krolyxon/dwm.git ~/.local/src/dwm
sudo make -C ~/.local/src/dwm install
  1. dwmblocks: statusbar
git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:krolyxon/dwmblocks.git ~/.local/src/dwmblocks
sudo make -C ~/.local/src/dwmblocks install
  1. st: Terminal
git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:krolyxon/st-luke.git ~/.local/src/st
sudo make -C ~/.local/src/st-luke install
  1. dmenu: Program Menu
git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:krolyxon/dmenu.git ~/.local/src/dmenu
sudo make -C ~/.local/src/dmenu install
  1. nsxiv: image viewer
git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:krolyxon/nsxiv.git ~/.local/src/nsxiv
sudo make -C ~/.local/src/nsxiv install
  1. nvim: Text editor
git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:krolyxon/nvim.git ~/.config/nvim
  1. paru: AUR helper
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git && cd paru-bin && makepkg -sri && cd .. && rm -rf paru-bin
paru -S --noconfirm htop-vim zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting-git keyd-git librewolf-bin
  1. set zsh as default shell
chsh -s $(which zsh)
  1. some symlinks and git alias
ln -s ~/.config/x11/xinitrc .xinitrc
ln -s ~/.config/shell/profile .zprofile
alias dots='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'
dots config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no