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Guide

Preinstallation

  1. You will need a partition for your Arch Linux installation and, preferably, a swap partition. It is very easy to do before installation, but if you are already loaded into Arch ISO, or doing installation on a new hardware, you can follow these instructions.
  2. lsblk. Determine what devices do you have. /dev/sda is usually the first SATA drive /dev/nvme0n1 is usually the first NVMe memory drive (those are SSDs on a motherboard).
  3. parted device where device is a desired devic to have your installation on.
  4. Run only if you have an empty (unpartitioned) drive: mklabel msdos, where msdos is a MBR partition type.
  5. mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%
  6. quit
  7. lsblk to check what is there.

Basic

  1. Make sure you know what your to-be-linux and swap partitions are.
  2. We will name them /dev/sdaX — linux partion and /dev/sdaY — swap partition.
  3. Load arch-linux from your flash drive. Whether it is USB stick or CD-R image.
  4. Upon loading of the live image execute next commands.
  5. wifi-menu if you are wifi user
  6. Choose your network. OK.
  7. OK.
  8. Enter your password for the network. OK.
  9. Wait a little till 'root@archlinuxiso' caption appears.
  10. Don't continue if you cannot connect to a network.
  11. mkswap /dev/sdaY
  12. swapon /dev/sdaY
  13. mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdaX
  14. Make sure you are formatting the right partition! There is NO turning back from this point!. If yes — enter 'y' when promted.
  15. mount /dev/sdaX /mnt
  16. pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
  17. Go take a cup of tea. It takes time.
  18. genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
  19. arch-chroot /mnt
  20. If promted with sh-4.3 — you are on the right way.
  21. pacman -S grub os-prober for MBR loader and add more:
  22. dialog wpa_supplicant -- for wifi access
  23. wget -- we will need this to get yaourt
  24. reflector -- this only updates mirror list, pretty optional
  25. fish -- this a cool and nice looking shell alternative to bash. I recommend it, but it's not POSIX!
  26. reflector --latest 50 --number 10 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist --verbose if you installed reflector
  27. useradd -m -G wheel -s /usr/bin/fish IMYA or useradd -m -G wheel IMYA if you haven't installed fish
  28. passwd
  29. Enter password for root.
  30. passwd IMYA
  31. Enter password for your user.
  32. nano /etc/sudoers
  33. Search for:
## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
  1. Uncomment %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
  2. Save. (Ctrl-X, y, enter)
  3. nano /etc/locale.gen
  4. Uncomment next line (for Russian): ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8
  5. Uncomment next line (for English): en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
  6. Save. (Ctrl-X, y, enter)
  7. You can just use sed instead of course: sed -i 's/#\(en_US\.UTF-8\)/\1/' /etc/locale.gen
  8. echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
  9. locale-gen
  10. ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Moscow /etc/localtime, instead of Europe/Moscow use your own timezone!
  11. grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --debug /dev/sda
  12. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  13. echo compname > /etc/hostnameif you need to change your host name for some reason
  14. exit
  15. reboot
  16. Take your flash drive out!
  17. Login under your user.

X and DE setup

You now have a clean Arch installation. Next steps are for X setup with DE.

  1. Internet:
  2. sudo wifi-menu for Wi-Fi
  3. sudo systemctl enable --now [email protected] for Ethernet
  4. sudo pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-apps sddm chromium
  5. For NVIDIA users: When asked to choose between nvidia drivers. Choose nvidia-libgl. Run sudo pacman -S nvidia.
  6. For Intel GPU users: run sudo pacman -S xf86-video-intel mesa-libgl libva
  7. For Mixed users: run sudo pacman -S bumblebee
  8. Install DE.
  9. Plasma: sudo pacman -S plasma yakuake dolphin gtk-theme-orion
  10. XFCE: sudo pacman -S xfce4
  11. sudo systemctl enable sddm.service
  12. sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager only if you connect through Wi-Fi
  13. sudo pacman -S NetworkManager if it is not installed yet.
  14. sudo reboot
  15. Login under your user. Use networks applet on DE panel to configure network (if you installed NetworkManager).

Yaourt installation

  1. mkdir aurs-tmp
  2. cd aurs-tmp
  3. Install package-query from arch AURs:
  4. wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/package-query.tar.gz
  5. tar -xvzf package-query.tar.gz
  6. cd package-query
  7. makepkg -si
  8. cd ..
  9. install yaourt packages:
  10. wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/yaourt.tar.gz
  11. tar -xvzf yaourt.tar.gz
  12. cd yaourt
  13. makepkg -si
  14. cd ..
  15. cd ..
  16. rm -rf aurs-temp

Custom fonts installation

You now have a clean Arch installation with Plasma 5 with pre-installed Dolphin (file manager), yakuake (drop-down terminal, press F12 in Plasma) and Chromium (web browser).

It is easier to perform next steps using DE, web browser (i.e. Chromium) and terminal with copy-paste feature supported (i.e. yakuake or konsole).

  1. Run yakuake or press F12.
  2. Run following to change your shortcut to change languages (if you need one):
  3. sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-keyboard-layout.conf
  4. Add following lines. Switching will be on Caps lock. To switch on Ctrl-Shift, for example, use Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle":
Section "InputClass"
  Identifier             "keyboard-layout"
  MatchIsKeyboard        "on"
  Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
  Option "XkbOptions" "grp:caps_toggle"
EndSection
  1. sudo pacman -S ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-inconsolata ttf-ubuntu-font-family ttf-dejavu ttf-freefont ttf-linux-libertine ttf-liberation
  2. For Microsoft fonts:
  3. yaourt -S ttf-ms-fonts ttf-vista-fonts ttf-monaco ttf-qurancomplex-fonts --noconfirm
  4. sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d
  5. sudo reboot
  6. Login under your user.