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Archlinux Ultimate Installer

Installation & Configuration of archlinux has never been much easier!

Prerequisites

  • A working internet connection
  • Logged in as 'root'

Internet Connection

First, test if you already have internet connection, so run:

ping google.com

If your ethernet is not working then try the following:

Connect to Wifi

root@archiso ~ # iwctl
[iwd]# device list
[iwd]# station wlan0 scan
[iwd]# station wlan0 get-networks
[iwd]# station wlan0 connect "Name of Network/WiFi"
[iwd]# exit

ip link

This will show you a number that looks something like enp39s0

Update System Clock

timedatectl set-ntp true
timedatectl status

Partition the Disk

In my case, I'll install arch on /dev/sda disk. You partition table should look like this (size may vary):

Name Partition Size Type
sda1 /boot 1G EFI
sda2 swap 8G swap
sda3 / 100G ext4
sda4 /home Remaining space ext4

First list your disks

fdisk -l

You should see your disk in here mine is called /dev/sda (WARNING do not write to any of these disks unless you know it's the one you want to install Arch on)

Now choose the disk you wish to partition

fdisk /dev/sda

You should now be in the fdisk utility you can press m for help

All of uor partitions will be GPT partitions so you can press g when ready

We will be create 4 partitions for the following:

  • boot
  • swap
  • root
  • home

Format the partitions:

We have to create 4 files systems here, so let's get started

  • Format the EFI partition with:
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
  • Create a swap file
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
  • Format the Root partition with:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
  • Format the Home partition with:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda4

Mount the filesystems

You will need to mount sda1, sda3 and sda4, but you need to mount Root first

  • Mount sda3 (ROOT)
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
  • Mount sda1 (BOOT)
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
  • Mount sda4 (Home)
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/home

Check mounts are correct

You can run df to make sure your mounts are in the right place

Check The Mirror List

1.Start by syncing the pacman repository:

pacman -Syy

2. Installing a reflector

pacman -S reflector

3. Create a backup of the mirror list:

cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bak

4. Use the reflector to update the mirror list:

reflector -c "Vietnam" -c "Singapore" -c "Japan" -c "India" -f 12 -l 10 -n 12 --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

5. Enable reflector

systemctl enable reflector.timer

Install essential packages (and a few others)

Run the following:

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware vim intel-ucode sudo linux-headers networkmanager git

If you have an intel processor also include intel-ucode, for AMD amd-ucode

Configure the system

Fstab

Generate UUIDs for newly created filesystem

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

You can check that it worked by printing the file:

cat /mnt/etc/fstab

Chroot

Now you can change root into the new system:

arch-chroot /mnt

Time zone

Set the time zone:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime

For example,

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh /etc/localtime

Just search through /usr/share/zoneinfo until you find your nearest City

Run hwclock:

hwclock --systohc --utc

And check the time

date

Localization

Uncommnent en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and other needed locales with:

vim /etc/locale.gen

locale-gen

Create the locale.conf file, and set LANG variable

touch /etc/locale.conf

echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> /etc/locale.conf

Network configuration

Create hostname file:

touch /etc/hostname

echo myhostname >> /etc/hostname

In my case, I will name myhostname with machine. You can call it anything you want

Add matching entries to hosts

vim /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1	  localhost
::1		      localhost
127.0.1.1	  myhostname.localdomain  myhostname

Note, Your terminal will display with username@myhostame

Root password

Change the root password:

passwd

Boot loader

We'll be using grub because it has the biggest presence in the boot loader world

pacman -S grub efibootmgr os-prober mtools

Create the directory where EFI partition will be mounted

[root@archiso /]# mkdir /boot/efi

Mount the ESP partition

[root@archiso /]# mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi

Now let's install our boot loader

[root@archiso /]# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB

Finally, generate the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file

[root@archiso /]# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Installing more packages

Here we can install a few more packages for networking and things like man pages

pacman -S man-db man-pages texinfo inetutils netctl dhcpcd networkmanager wpa_supplicant dialog linux-headers network-manager-applet mtools dosfstools xdg-user-dirs xdg-utils cups pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack bash-completion acpi acpid terminus-font

You're done

Enter exit then reboot

exit
umount -a
reboot

or

exit
umount -R /mnt
reboot

After Rebooting,

We need to switch root in order to enable network

Setup your network

ping archlinux.org

Enable NetworkManager service

systemctl start NetworkManager.service

systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

Enable internet service

systemctl start dhcpcd.service

systemctl enable dhcpcd.service

Connect to Network

nmtui

Add a user

  • Add user
useradd -m -g wheel <your_user>
  • Create password
passwd <your_user>

Switch users

To switch to your user run:

su <your_user>

Giving your user access to sudo

Make sure you have vi installed

Note: Trying If raise error "visudo: no editor found (editor path = /usr/bin/vi)"

ln -s /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vi

Enter:

visudo

and uncomment this line so it looks like this

%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

if you hate typing your password everytime like me do this instead

%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Install the Xorg display server

pacman -S xorg xorg-server xorg-xinit

Install the Xorg Terminal

pacman -S xterm

Installing a DM

pacman -S lightdm

pacman -S lightdm-gtk-greeter

pacman -S lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings

Here are GDM Display Manager (optional)

[root@archiso /]# pacman -S gdm

systemctl enable gdm.service
systemctl start gdm.service

Enable lightdm service

systemctl enable lightdm

List our enabled services

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled

Install xbacklight (Important)

sudo pacman -Syy
sudo pacman -Syu xorg-xbacklight

Install i3wm (or any WM or DE)

pacman -S i3 dmenu feh rofi
cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
echo "exec i3 >> ~/.xinitrc

Install audio

pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack alsa-utils playerctl

Enable pulseaudio

systemctl --user enable pulseaudio

I'm using i3 but you can install any WM or DE you like best

Here are some WM options:

  • dwm
  • awesome
  • bspwm
  • xmonad

Here are some DE options:

  • XFCE
  • KDE
  • Gnome

Install DE (Optional)

pacman -S xfce4

Install a terminal emulator

pacman -S alacritty

I'm using Alacritty but you can install any terminal emulator you want

Here are some options:

  • st
  • rxvt-unicode
  • termite
  • terminator

Install Fonts

pacman -S ttf-dejavu ttf-droid ttf-hack ttf-font-awesome ttf-lato ttf-liberation ttf-linux-libertine ttf-opensans ttf-roboto ttf-ionicons ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-croscore noto-fonts ttf-ibm-plex

Install AUR

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
cd ..
sudo rm -rfv yay

Install Browser

We will install Brave

yay -S brave-bin

Note, choose brave-bin

You can now reboot into your new system!

reboot

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