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Arch Linux with Xfce4 and i3 Window Manager Installation Guide

12 | 13 |
14 | How to install Arch Linux with Xfce/i3 and not spend ages on debugging 15 |
16 | 17 | ### Getting Started 18 | 19 | Welcome to the Arch Linux with Xfce4 and i3 Window Manager Installation Guide! 20 | 21 | This guide provides you with a step-by-step walkthrough of installing 22 | Arch Linux along with the Xfce4 and i3 window manager. It has been carefully created 23 | based on my own experience of installation Arch Linux on multiple devices over the years. 24 | This guide aims to make your installation process as smooth as possible. 25 | 26 | To begin your Arch Linux installation journey, please follow the step-by-step instructions provided below. 27 | 28 | ### Support and Feedback 29 | 30 | If you have any suggestions, corrections, or encounter any issues while following 31 | the guide, I encourage you to get involved through Github. 32 | 33 | **Issues:** If you come across any problems or have specific questions, please open 34 | an issue on the Github repository for this guide. This allows me to track and 35 | address your concerns effectively. 36 | 37 | **Pull Requests:** If you have improvements or additions to the guide, feel free to submit 38 | a pull request. Your contributions can help enhance the clarity of the guide for everyone. 39 | 40 |

41 | Section 01: Step-by-step guide of installing Arch Linux on your hardware 🚀 42 |

43 | 44 | ### Step 01: Downloading Arch Linux image 45 | 46 | 1. Go to Arch Linux downloads page https://archlinux.org/download/ 47 | 48 | 2. Find **HTTP Direct Downloads** section and choose any download mirror. 49 | Select a mirror that is geographically closer to your location. 50 | 51 | 3. On the mirror page find archive named like `archlinux-YYYY.MM.DD-x86_64.iso` or `archlinux-x86_64.iso` 52 | or any other file with `.iso` suffix. Other files (like _.txt_, _.tar.gz_ and even _.iso.sig_) 53 | are not needed for installation process. 54 | 55 | ### Step 02: Preparing installation medium 56 | 57 | 1. Insert a USB-stick into your PC with at least 2Gb of space available on it. 58 | 59 | 2. Find corresponding block device for USB-stick in `/dev` folder. Usually it is `/dev/sdb`. 60 | 61 |
62 | 💡 IMPORTANT NOTE: you need block device without a number on the end. 63 | If you have for example /dev/sdb, /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 you need /dev/sdb ! 64 |
65 | 66 | 3. Burn previously downloaded Arch Linux ISO-image on a USB-stick (in my case it is `/dev/sdb`): 67 | 68 |
69 | 
  70 | $ sudo dd conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress bs=4M \
  71 |           if=./archlinux-YYYY.MM.DD-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb
  72 |
73 |
74 | 75 | ### Step 03: Boot into Arch Linux medium 76 | 77 | 1. Insert the installation medium into the computer on which you are installing Arch Linux. 78 | 79 | 2. Power on your PC and press _boot menu key_. For _Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon_ series laptop, 80 | this key is `F12`. 81 | 82 | 3. Boot from USB-stick and wait until boot process is finished. 83 | 84 |
85 | 💡 IMPORTANT NOTE: not every device can run a system from USB-stick out of the box. 86 | Many BIOS'es by default come with activated Secure boot option.You might need to 87 | deactivate it in your BIOS. 88 |
89 | 90 | ### Step 04: Syncronize packages 91 | 92 | 1. [Optional] Connect to WiFi using `iwctl` and check connection is established: 93 | 94 |
95 | 
  96 | $ iwctl
  97 | [iwd]# station wlan0 get-networks
  98 | [iwd]# station wlan0 connect <Name of WiFi access point>
  99 | [iwd]# exit
 100 | $ ping 1.1.1.1
 101 |
102 |
103 | 104 | 2. Synchronize pacman packaes: 105 | 106 |
107 | 
 108 | $ pacman -Syy
 109 |
110 |
111 | 112 | ### Step 05: Disk partitioning 113 | 114 | 1. Partition main storage device using `fdisk` utility. You can find storage device name using `lsblk` command. 115 | 116 |
117 | 
 118 | $ fdisk /dev/nvme0n1
 119 |                 [repeat this command until existing partitions are deleted]
 120 | Command (m for help): d
 121 | Command (m for help): d
 122 | Command (m for help): d
 123 | 
 124 |                 [create partition 1: efi]
 125 | Command (m for help): n
 126 | Partition number (1-128, default 1): Enter ↵
 127 | First sector (..., default 2048): Enter ↵
 128 | Last sector ...: +256M
 129 | 
 130 |                 [create partition 2: main]
 131 | Command (m for help): n
 132 | Partition number (2-128, default 2): Enter ↵
 133 | First sector (..., default ...): Enter ↵
 134 | Last sector ...: -32G // double size of your RAM
 135 | 
 136 |                 [create partition 3: swap]
 137 | Command (m for help): n
 138 | Partition number (3-128, default 3): Enter ↵
 139 | First sector (..., default ...): Enter ↵
 140 | Last sector ...: Enter ↵
 141 | 
 142 |                 [change partition types]
 143 | Command (m for help): t
 144 | Partition number (1-3, default 1): 1
 145 | Partion type or alias (type L to list all): uefi
 146 | Command (m for help): t
 147 | Partition number (1-3, default 2): 2
 148 | Partion type or alias (type L to list all): linux
 149 | Command (m for help): t
 150 | Partition number (1-3, default 3): 3
 151 | Partion type or alias (type L to list all): swap
 152 | 
 153 |                 [write partitioning to disk]
 154 | Command (m for help): w
 155 |
156 |
157 | 158 | 2. Create filesystems on created disk partitions: 159 | 160 |
161 | 
 162 | $ mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/nvme0n1p1 # on EFI System partition
 163 | $ mkfs -t ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2   # on Linux filesystem partition
 164 | $ mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3         # on Linux swap partition
 165 |
166 |
167 | 168 | 3. Correctly mount all filesystems to the `/mnt`: 169 | 170 |
171 | 
 172 | $ mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
 173 | $ mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
 174 | $ mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi
 175 | $ swapon /dev/nvme0n1p3
 176 |
177 |
178 | 179 | 4. Install essential packages into new filesystem and generate fstab: 180 | 181 |
182 | 
 183 | $ pacstrap -i /mnt base linux linux-firmware sudo vim
 184 | $ genfstab -U -p /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab
 185 |
186 |
187 | 188 | ### Step 06: Basic configuration of new system 189 | 190 | 1. Chroot into freshly created filesystem: 191 | 192 |
193 | 
 194 | $ arch-chroot /mnt
 195 |
196 |
197 | 198 | 2. Setup system locale and timezone, sync hardware clock with system clock: 199 | 200 |
201 | 
 202 | $ vim /etc/locale.gen   # uncomment your locales, i.e. `en_US.UTF-8` or `en_GB.UTF-8`
 203 | $ locale-gen
 204 | $ echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf                # choose your locale
 205 | $ ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime   # choose your timezone
 206 | $ hwclock --systohc
 207 |
208 |
209 | 210 | 3. Setup system hostname: 211 | 212 |
213 | 
 214 | $ echo yourhostname > /etc/hostname
 215 | $ vim /etc/hosts
 216 |     127.0.0.1 localhost
 217 |     ::1       localhost
 218 |     127.0.1.1 yourhostname
 219 |
220 |
221 | 222 | 4. Add new users and setup passwords: 223 | 224 |
225 | 
 226 | $ useradd -m -G wheel,storage,power,audio,video -s /bin/bash yourusername
 227 | $ passwd root
 228 | $ passwd yourusername
 229 |
230 |
231 | 232 | 5. Add wheel group to sudoers file to allow users to run sudo: 233 | 234 |
235 | 
 236 | $ visudo
 237 |     [uncomment following line in file]
 238 |     %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
 239 |
240 |
241 | 242 | 6. Install and configure GRUB: 243 | 244 |
245 | 
 246 | $ pacman -S grub efibootmgr
 247 | $ grub-install /dev/nvme0n1
 248 | $ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
 249 |
250 |
251 | 252 | 7. Setup networking stack: 253 | 254 |
255 | 
 256 | $ pacman -S dhcpcd networkmanager resolvconf
 257 | $ systemctl enable dhcpcd
 258 | $ systemctl enable NetworkManager
 259 | $ systemctl enable systemd-resolved
 260 |
261 |
262 | 263 | 8. Exit chroot, unmount all disks and reboot: 264 | 265 |
266 | 
 267 | $ exit
 268 | $ umount /mnt/boot/efi
 269 | $ umount /mnt
 270 | $ reboot
 271 |
272 |
273 | 274 |

275 | Section 02: Configuring userspace after initial system setup 🎯 276 |

277 | 278 | ### Step 01: Basic configuration of userspace 279 | 280 | 1. Activate time syncronization using NTP: 281 | 282 |
283 | 
 284 | $ timedatectl set-ntp true
 285 |
286 |
287 | 288 | 2. [Optional] Connect to WiFi using `nmcli`: 289 | 290 |
291 | 
 292 | $ nmcli device wifi connect <Name of WiFi access point> password <password>
 293 |
294 |
295 | 296 | 3. Install X.Org and its utilities: 297 | 298 |
299 | 
 300 | $ sudo pacman -S xorg xorg-apps xorg-xinit xorg-xlsfonts xdotool xclip xsel
 301 |
302 |
303 | 304 | 4. Install a bunch of useful utilities: 305 | 306 |
307 | 
 308 | $ sudo pacman -S dbus              # Message bus used by many applications
 309 | $ sudo pacman -S intel-ucode       # Microcode update files for Intel CPUs
 310 | $ sudo pacman -S fuse2             # Interface for programs to export a filesystem to the Linux kernel
 311 | $ sudo pacman -S lshw              # Provides detailed information on the hardware of the machine
 312 | $ sudo pacman -S powertop          # A tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management
 313 | $ sudo pacman -S inxi              # Full featured CLI system information tool
 314 | $ sudo pacman -S acpi              # Client for battery, power, and thermal readings
 315 | 

 316 | $ sudo pacman -S base-devel        # Basic tools to build Arch Linux packages
 317 | $ sudo pacman -S git               # Distributed version control system
 318 | $ sudo pacman -S zip               # Compressor/archiver for creating and modifying zipfiles
 319 | $ sudo pacman -S unzip             # For extracting and viewing files in .zip archives
 320 | $ sudo pacman -S p7zip             # For extracting and viewing files in .7z archives
 321 | $ sudo pacman -S htop              # Interactive CLI process viewer
 322 | $ sudo pacman -S tree              # A directory listing program
 323 | 

 324 | $ sudo pacman -S dialog            # A tool to display dialog boxes from shell scripts
 325 | $ sudo pacman -S reflector         # Script to retrieve and filter the latest Pacman mirror list
 326 | $ sudo pacman -S bash-completion   # Programmable completion for the bash shell
 327 | 

 328 | $ sudo pacman -S iw                # CLI configuration utility for wireless devices
 329 | $ sudo pacman -S wpa_supplicant    # A utility providing key negotiation for WPA wireless networks
 330 | $ sudo pacman -S tcpdump           # Powerful command-line packet analyzer
 331 | $ sudo pacman -S mtr               # Combines the functionality of traceroute and ping into one tool
 332 | $ sudo pacman -S net-tools         # Configuration tools for Linux networking
 333 | $ sudo pacman -S conntrack-tools   # Userspace tools to interact with the Netfilter tracking system
 334 | $ sudo pacman -S ethtool           # Utility for controlling network drivers and hardware
 335 | $ sudo pacman -S wget              # Network utility to retrieve files from the Web
 336 | $ sudo pacman -S rsync             # File copying tool for remote and local files
 337 | $ sudo pacman -S socat             # Multipurpose socket relay
 338 | $ sudo pacman -S openbsd-netcat    # Netcat program. OpenBSD variant.
 339 | $ sudo pacman -S axel              # Light command line download accelerator
 340 | $ sudo pacman -S bind              # I use dig utility for DNS resolution from this package
 341 |
342 |
343 | 344 | 5. Install Xfce4, i3, or both: 345 | 346 |
347 | 
 348 | # Instructions for installing Xfce4
 349 | 

 350 | $ sudo pacman -S xfce4
 351 | $ sudo pacman -S xfce4-notifyd xfce4-screensaver xfce4-screenshooter
 352 | $ sudo pacman -S thunar-archive-plugin thunar-media-tags-plugin
 353 | $ sudo pacman -S network-manager-applet
 354 | $ sudo pacman -S xfce4-xkb-plugin         xfce4-battery-plugin \
 355 |                  xfce4-datetime-plugin    xfce4-mount-plugin   \
 356 |                  xfce4-netload-plugin     xfce4-wavelan-plugin \
 357 |                  xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin  xfce4-weather-plugin \
 358 |                  xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
 359 | 

 360 | # Instructions for installing i3
 361 | 

 362 | $ sudo pacman -S i3-wm i3status i3lock pango
 363 | $ sudo pacman -S lxappearance
 364 | 

 365 | # You will most probably need these apps for i3
 366 | 

 367 | $ sudo pacman -S polybar      # nice statusbar for i3-based UIs
 368 | $ sudo pacman -S rofi         # like dmenu, but more customizable
 369 | $ sudo pacman -S alacritty    # terminal emulator
 370 | $ sudo pacman -S dunst        # notification manager
 371 | $ sudo pacman -S feh          # fast and light image viewer
 372 | $ sudo pacman -S xss-lock     # screen lock controller
 373 | $ sudo pacman -S flameshot    # screenshot app
 374 | $ sudo pacman -S gsimplecal   # small calendar widget
 375 | $ sudo pacman -S yazi         # console file manager
 376 | 

 377 | # additionals to yazi:
 378 | 

 379 | $ sudo pacman -S ueberzugpp   # viewing images in terminal
 380 |
381 |
382 | 383 | 6. Install login session manager, I prefer `ly` for it's minimalism: 384 | 385 |
386 | 
 387 | $ sudo pacman -S ly
 388 | $ sudo systemctl enable ly
 389 |
390 |
391 | 392 | 7. Install essential system fonts: 393 | 394 |
395 | 
 396 | $ sudo pacman -S ttf-dejavu ttf-freefont ttf-liberation ttf-droid terminus-font
 397 | $ sudo pacman -S noto-fonts noto-fonts-emoji ttf-ubuntu-font-family ttf-roboto ttf-roboto-mono ttf-ibm-plex
 398 |
399 |
400 | 401 | 8. [Optional] Enable sound support on your PC: 402 | 403 |
404 | 
 405 | $ sudo pacman -S sof-firmware    # Sound Open Firmware
 406 | $ sudo pacman -S pulseaudio      # A featureful, general-purpose sound server
 407 | $ sudo pacman -S pavucontrol     # PulseAudio Volume Control
 408 | $ sudo pacman -S alsa-utils      # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - Utilities
 409 | $ sudo pacman -S alsa-plugins    # Additional ALSA plugins
 410 |
411 |
412 | 413 | 9. [Optional] Enable bluetooth support on your PC: 414 | 415 |
416 | 
 417 | $ sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-utils blueman
 418 | $ sudo systemctl enable bluetooth
 419 |
420 |
421 | 422 | 10. [Optional] Enable printing support on your PC: 423 | 424 |
425 | 
 426 | $ sudo pacman -S cups cups-filters cups-pdf system-config-printer
 427 | $ sudo pacman -S hplip    # for HP devices
 428 | $ sudo systemctl enable cups.service
 429 |
430 |
431 | 432 |
433 | 💡 IMPORTANT NOTE: if there is no option for system-config-printer in xfce4-settings-manager, 434 | go to /usr/share/applications/system-config-printer.desktop and set 435 | Categories=System;Settings;X-XFCE-SettingsDialog;X-XFCE-HardwareSettings; 436 |
437 | 438 | 11. [Optional] Improve battary usage with TLP - utility that basically does kernel settings 439 | tweaking that improve power consumption. More information about TLP 440 | [can be found here](https://linrunner.de/tlp/). More information about TLP-RDW (radio device wizard) 441 | [can be found here](https://linrunner.de/tlp/settings/rdw.html). 442 | 443 |
444 | 
 445 | $ sudo pacman -S tlp tlp-rdw
 446 | $ sudo systemctl enable tlp
 447 | 

 448 | # execute following commands only if using TLP-RDW:
 449 | 

 450 | $ sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager-dispatcher.service
 451 | $ sudo systemctl mask systemd-rfkill.service
 452 | $ sudo systemctl mask systemd-rfkill.socket
 453 |
454 |
455 | 456 | 12. [Optional] Run service that will discard unused blocks on mounted filesystems. This is useful for 457 | solid-state drives (SSDs) and thinly-provisioned storage. More information on fstrim 458 | [can be found here](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/fstrim.8.html). 459 | 460 |
461 | 
 462 | $ sudo systemctl enable fstrim.timer
 463 |
464 |
465 | 466 | 13. [Optional] Install GTK themes and icons: 467 | 468 |
469 | 
 470 | $ sudo pacman -S arc-gtk-theme adapta-gtk-theme materia-gtk-theme
 471 | $ sudo pacman -S papirus-icon-theme
 472 |
473 |
474 | 475 | 14. [Optional] Choose fastest pacman mirrors (use your own country list): 476 | 477 |
478 | 
 479 | $ sudo reflector --country Germany,Austria,Switzerland \
 480 |                  --fastest 10 \
 481 |                  --threads $(nproc) \
 482 |                  --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
 483 |
484 |
485 | 486 | 15. [Optional] Install NetworkManager addons: 487 | 488 |
489 | 
 490 | $ sudo pacman -S nm-connection-editor networkmanager-openvpn
 491 |
492 |
493 | 494 | 16. [Optional] Install vulkan drivers: 495 | 496 |
497 | 
 498 | $ pacman -S mesa vulkan-intel   # only for systems with Intel graphics
 499 | $ pacman -S nvidia-utils        # only for systems with Nvidia graphics
 500 | $ pacman -S amdvlk              # only for systems with AMD graphics
 501 |
502 |
503 | 504 | 17. Reboot to finalize installation: 505 | 506 |
507 | 
 508 | $ reboot
 509 |
510 |
511 | 512 | ### Step 02: Enable hibernation support 513 | 514 | 1. Open your `/etc/fstab` and find UUID for your swap partition 515 | 516 | 2. Open GRUB configuration file and add resume UUID to `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT`: 517 | 518 |
519 | 
 520 | $ sudo vim /etc/default/grub
 521 |   Example: 
 522 |   ...
 523 |   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash resume=UUID=<UUID of your swap partition>"
 524 |   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash resume=UUID=97d9e9f5-899f-4e9e-910e-623a5f665271"
 525 |   ...
 526 |
527 |
528 | 529 | 3. Generate GRUB config: 530 | 531 |
532 | 
 533 | $ sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
 534 |
535 |
536 | 537 | 4. Open mkinitcpio configuration file and add `resume` hook: 538 | 539 |
540 | 
 541 | $ sudo vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
 542 |   Example: 
 543 |   ...
 544 |   HOOKS="base udev resume autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck"
 545 |   ...
 546 |
547 |
548 | 549 | 5. Generate initramfs: 550 | 551 |
552 | 
 553 | $ sudo mkinitcpio -p linux
 554 |
555 |
556 | 557 | 6. From now onwards, you can hibernate your system using: 558 | 559 |
560 | 
 561 | $ sudo systemctl hibernate
 562 |
563 |
564 | 565 |

566 | Section 03: Installing third-party apps and
567 | setting up dev environment 🧑‍💻 568 |

569 |
570 | These is my personal list of apps and utilities which I use on regular basis, 571 | so feel free to fork this repo and add something yours 572 |
573 | 574 | ### Step 01: General-purpose apps 575 | 576 |
577 | 
 578 | $ sudo pacman -S chromium          # web-browser
 579 | $ sudo pacman -S obsidian          # note-taking app
 580 | $ sudo pacman -S bitwarden         # password manager for all devices (use keepassxc provider)
 581 | $ sudo pacman -S bitwarden-cli     # command line bitwarden client
 582 | $ sudo pacman -S mousepad          # simple graphical text editor
 583 | $ sudo pacman -S file-roller       # archive manager
 584 | $ sudo pacman -S evince            # pdf viewer
 585 | $ sudo pacman -S xournalpp         # pdf editor
 586 | $ sudo pacman -S libreoffice       # office packages
 587 | $ sudo pacman -S gimp              # image editor
 588 | $ sudo pacman -S gpick             # color picker
 589 | $ sudo pacman -S inkscape          # vector graphics editor
 590 | $ sudo pacman -S fontforge         # fonts editor
 591 | $ sudo pacman -S gparted           # grphical disk management tool
 592 | $ sudo pacman -S vlc               # video player
 593 | $ sudo pacman -S remmina           # remote desktop client
 594 | $ sudo pacman -S shotcut           # video editing tool
 595 | $ sudo pacman -S evolution         # email client
 596 | $ sudo pacman -S redshift          # adjusts the color temperature of your screen
 597 | $ sudo pacman -S obs-studio        # screencasting and streaming app
 598 | $ sudo pacman -S wireshark-qt      # network protocol analyzer
 599 | $ sudo pacman -S spotify-launcher  # spotify client
 600 | $ sudo pacman -S telegram-desktop  # my preffered messenger
 601 | $ sudo pacman -S rclone            # manage or migrate files on cloud storage
 602 | $ sudo pacman -S openvpn           # openvpn client
 603 | $ sudo pacman -S wireguard-tools   # wireguard client
 604 | $ sudo pacman -S arandr            # gui for xrandr
 605 |
606 |
607 | 608 | ### Step 02: Install package manager for AUR (Arch User Repository) 609 | 610 |
611 | 
 612 | $ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
 613 | $ cd yay
 614 | $ makepkg -si
 615 |
616 |
617 | 618 | ### Step 03: Software development tools 619 | 620 | 1. General purpose development tools: 621 | 622 |
623 | 
 624 | $ sudo pacman -S neovim          # powerful console editor
 625 | $ sudo pacman -S zed             # ultimate graphical editor
 626 | $ sudo pacman -S tree-sitter     # parsing system for programming tools
 627 | $ sudo pacman -S tree-sitter-cli # cli tool tree-sitter parsers
 628 | $ sudo pacman -S stow            # configuration manager
 629 | $ sudo pacman -S sqlite3         # console sqlite client
 630 | $ sudo pacman -S tldr            # collection of simplified man pages
 631 | $ sudo pacman -S jq              # cli json processor
 632 | $ sudo pacman -S tmux            # terminal session multiplexer
 633 | $ sudo pacman -S nmap            # network scanner with advanced features
 634 | $ sudo pacman -S masscan         # high performance network scanner
 635 | $ sudo pacman -S pgcli           # console client for PostgreSQL
 636 | $ sudo pacman -S redis           # console client for Redis
 637 | $ sudo pacman -S apache          # http server + some useful utilities (htpasswd)
 638 | $ sudo pacman -S meld            # git visual diff and merge tool
 639 | $ sudo pacman -S websocat        # command line client for websockets
 640 | $ sudo pacman -S sshpass         # noninteractive ssh password provider
 641 | $ sudo pacman -S git-filter-repo # faster and safer git-filter-branch alternative
 642 | $ sudo pacman -S httpie          # human-friendly CLI HTTP client for the API era
 643 |
644 |
645 | 646 |
647 | 💡 IMPORTANT NOTE: execute sudo setcap 'cap_net_raw+epi' /usr/bin/masscan to enable 648 | the ability to run masscan as non-root user. 649 |
650 | 651 | 2. Infrastructure as a Code and DevOps tools: 652 | 653 |
654 | 
 655 | $ sudo pacman -S ansible          # infrastructure as a code tool (bare metal)
 656 | $ sudo pacman -S podman           # cli tool for container management
 657 | $ sudo pacman -S podman-compose   # run multi-container applications with podman
 658 | $ sudo pacman -S docker           # cli tool for container management
 659 | $ sudo pacman -S docker-compose   # run multi-container applications with docker
 660 | $ sudo pacman -S kubectl          # cli tool for managing kubernetes clusters
 661 | $ sudo pacman -S helm             # package manager for kubernetes
 662 | $ sudo pacman -S terraform        # infrastructure as a code tool (clouds)
 663 | 

 664 | # configure docker
 665 | 

 666 | $ sudo systemctl enable docker            # enable docker daemon on system start
 667 | # sudo usermod -a -G docker yourusername  # to be able to run docker as non-root
 668 | $ newgrp docker                           # login to docker group without restart
 669 |
670 |
671 | 672 | 3. Install Golang and its tools: 673 | 674 |
675 | 
 676 | $ sudo pacman -S go
 677 | $ go install github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl/cmd/grpcurl@latest
 678 | $ go install github.com/hairyhenderson/gomplate/v4/cmd/gomplate@latest
 679 |
680 |
681 | 682 | 4. Install Java and its tools: 683 | 684 |
685 | 
 686 | $ sudo pacman -S jdk8-openjdk    # OpenJDK Java  8 development kit
 687 | $ sudo pacman -S jdk11-openjdk   # OpenJDK Java 11 development kit
 688 | $ sudo pacman -S jdk17-openjdk   # OpenJDK Java 17 development kit
 689 | $ sudo pacman -S jdk21-openjdk   # OpenJDK Java 21 development kit
 690 | $ sudo pacman -S jdk-openjdk     # OpenJDK Java 22 development kit
 691 | $ sudo pacman -S maven           # Java project management tool
 692 | $ sudo pacman -S gradle          # Java project management tool
 693 |
694 |
695 | 696 |
697 | 💡 IMPORTANT NOTE: JVM version can be switched using archlinux-java. List all available 698 | JVM versions using archlinux-java status and set one using archlinux-java set VERSION. 699 |
700 | 701 | 5. Install Dart and Flutter following instructions from https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/linux 702 | 703 | 6. Install C, C++ and tools for low-level development: 704 | 705 |
706 | 
 707 | $ sudo pacman -S gcc         # GNU Compiler Collection, C and C++ frontends
 708 | $ sudo pacman -S gdb         # GNU Debugger
 709 | $ sudo pacman -S clang       # C/C++ frontend compiler for LLVM
 710 | $ sudo pacman -S cmake       # C/C++ project management tool
 711 | $ sudo pacman -S ninja       # Build system with a focus on speed
 712 | $ sudo pacman -S cuda        # NVIDIA GPU programming toolkit
 713 | $ sudo pacman -S nasm        # Asssembler for the x86 CPU architecture
 714 | $ sudo pacman -S boost       # C++ library with general purpose utils and data structures
 715 | $ sudo pacman -S cdrtools    # CD/DVD/BluRay command line recording software
 716 | $ sudo pacman -S qemu-full   # Open source machine emulator and virtualizer
 717 |
718 |
719 | 720 | 7. Install Python and its tools: 721 | 722 |
723 | 
 724 | $ sudo pacman -S python             # python itself
 725 | $ sudo pacman -S python-pip         # python package manager
 726 | $ sudo pacman -S python-virtualenv  # python virtualenv
 727 | $ sudo pacman -S python-poetry      # python package manager (better one)
 728 |
729 |
730 | 731 | 8. Install Lua: 732 | 733 |
734 | 
 735 | $ sudo pacman -S lua       # Collection of Lua tools
 736 |
737 |
738 | 739 | 9. Install JavaScript and its tools: 740 | 741 |
742 | 
 743 | $ sudo pacman -S nodejs    # JavaScript runtime
 744 | $ sudo pacman -S npm       # JavaScript package manager
 745 | $ sudo pacman -S yarn      # JavaScript package manager
 746 |
747 |
748 | 749 | 10. Install Rust and its tools: 750 | 751 |
752 | 
 753 | $ sudo pacman -S rust     # Rust compiler and tools for project management
 754 |
755 |
756 | 757 | 11. Install Virtualbox: 758 | 759 |
760 | 
 761 | $ sudo pacman -S linux-headers          # Headers for building Linux kernel modules
 762 | $ sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-dkms   # VirtualBox Host kernel modules sources
 763 | $ sudo pacman -S virtualbox             # Hypervisor for x86 virtualization
 764 |
765 |
766 | 767 | 12. Architecture diagraming tools: 768 | 769 |
770 | 
 771 | $ sudo pacman -S plantuml    # Tool for creating UML diagrams
 772 |
773 |
774 | 775 | 13. Install hugo (static website generator): 776 | 777 |
778 | 
 779 | $ sudo pacman -S hugo        # fast and flexible static site generator in go
 780 | $ sudo pacman -S dart-sass   # implementation of sass (required for hugo)
 781 |
782 |
783 | 784 | 14. Accounting software: 785 | 786 |
787 | 
 788 | $ sudo pacman -S gnucash   # Personal and small-business financial-accounting application
 789 |
790 |
791 | 792 | 15. 3D-Printing software: 793 | 794 |
795 | 
 796 | $ sudo pacman -S freecad       # Feature based parametric 3D CAD modeler
 797 | $ sudo pacman -S prusa-slicer  # G-code generator for 3D printers
 798 |
799 |
800 | 801 | 16. Reverse engineering software 802 | 803 |
804 | 
 805 | $ sudo pacman -S radare2         # open-source tools to disasm, debug, analyze and manipulate binary files
 806 | $ sudo pacman -S ghidra          # software reverse engineering framework
 807 | $ r2pm -U && r2pm -ci r2ghidra   # integrate ghidra decompiler into radare2
 808 |
809 |
810 | 811 | ### Step 04: Install Wine (Windows application runner) 812 | 813 | 1. Go to `/etc/pacman.conf` and uncomment (or add) following lines: 814 | 815 |
816 | 
 817 | [multilib]
 818 | Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
 819 |
820 |
821 | 822 | 2. Update package database: 823 | 824 |
825 | 
 826 | $ sudo pacman -Syu
 827 |
828 |
829 | 830 | 3. Install Wine and its utilities: 831 | 832 |
833 | 
 834 | $ sudo pacman -S wine         # Compatibility layer for running Windows programs
 835 | $ sudo pacman -S wine-mono    # Wine's replacement for Microsoft's .NET Framework
 836 | $ sudo pacman -S wine-gecko   # Wine's replacement for Microsoft's Internet Explorer
 837 | $ sudo pacman -S winetricks   # Installer for various runtime libraries in Wine
 838 | $ sudo pacman -S zenity       # Display dialog boxes from shell scripts (wine dependency)
 839 |
840 |
841 | 842 | 4. Configure smooth font in Wine applications: 843 | 844 |
845 | 
 846 | $ winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb
 847 |
848 |
849 | 850 |
851 | 💡 IMPORTANT NOTE: if you are facing error 852 | wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\Z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available, 853 | go to ~/.wine/dosdevices, remove z: symbolic link and make it point to your $HOME 854 |
855 | 856 | ### Step 05: Install texlive (LaTeX distribution) 857 | 858 | 1. Download texlive installer: 859 | 860 |
861 | 
 862 | $ wget http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
 863 |
864 |
865 | 866 | 2. Unpack texlive installer archive: 867 | 868 |
869 | 
 870 | $ mkdir ./texlive
 871 | $ tar -xvf install-tl-unx.tar.gz -C texlive --strip-components=1
 872 |
873 |
874 | 875 | 3. Run texlive install and select nearest CTAN mirror: 876 | 877 |
878 | 
 879 | $ cd ./texlive
 880 | $ sudo ./install-tl -select-repository
 881 |
882 |
883 | 884 | ### Step 06: Setup Android development tools 885 | 886 | 1. Download zip-archive from here: https://developer.android.com/studio from _Command line tools only_ section. 887 | 888 | 2. Unpack archive and copy cmdline-tools to `$ANDROID_HOME` (in my case `~/Android`): 889 | 890 |
891 | 
 892 | $ unzip commandlinetools-linux-..._latest.zip    # archive you got from website
 893 | $ mkdir -p ~/Android/cmdline-tools/latest
 894 | $ mv ./cmdline-tools/* ~/Android/cmdline-tools/latest/
 895 |
896 |
897 | 898 | 3. Set `ANDROID_HOME` environment variable to `~/Andoird` in `.bashrc` 899 | 900 | 4. Install platform tools, build tools and accept all licenses: 901 | 902 |
903 | 
 904 | $ sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms;android-29"
 905 | $ sdkmanager "build-tools;29.0.3"
 906 | $ sdkmanager --licenses
 907 | $ sdkmanager --update
 908 |
909 |
910 | 911 | ### Step 07: Install Yubikey tools 912 | 913 |
914 | 
 915 | $ sudo pacman -S yubikey-manager
 916 | $ sudo pacman -S yubikey-personalization-gui
 917 |
918 |
919 | 920 | ### Bonus: My list of reverse engineering tools 921 | 922 | 1. Binary reverse engineering: 923 | `gdb`, `strace`, `ltrace`, `ldd`, `objdump` `radare2`, `frida`, 924 | `Ghidra`, `IDA Pro`, `cutter` + `rz-ghidra` + `cutterref`, `angr-management` 925 | `API Monitor`, `PEiD`, `UpxUnpacker` 926 | 927 | 2. Python: `pycdc` 928 | 929 | 3. Java: `jd-gui`, `jadx` 930 | 931 | 4. C#: `Avalonia ILSpy` 932 | 933 |

934 | Section 04: F.A.Q.s, bug fixes and other useful tips and playbooks 935 | for Arch Linux 🪲 936 |

937 | 938 | ### Playbook 01: Fix XHCI hibernation error 939 | 940 | In some Linux kernels there are some broken USB 3.0 device drivers, that _sometimes_ wake up 941 | the system right after you launch hibernation process. If you see errors like this in your 942 | `dmesg` command output after an unsuccessful hibernation: 943 | 944 |
945 | 
 946 | xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: PM: pci_pm_freeze(): hcd_pci_suspend+0x0/0x20 returns -16
 947 | xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: PM: dpm_run_callback(): pci_pm_freeze+0x0/0xc0 returns -16
 948 | xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: PM: failed to freeze async: error -16
 949 |
950 |
951 | 952 | To fix the issue put following lines in `/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/xhci` and make this file executable: 953 | 954 |
955 | 
 956 | #!/bin/sh
 957 | 

 958 | run_pre_hook() {
 959 |     echo "Disable xhci module before suspend at $(date)..." >> /tmp/systemd_suspend_log
 960 |     grep XHC.\*enable /proc/acpi/wakeup && echo XHC > /proc/acpi/wakeup
 961 | }
 962 | 

 963 | run_post_hook() {
 964 |     echo "Enable xhci module after wakeup from $(date)" >> /tmp/systemd_suspend_log
 965 |     grep XHC.\*disable /proc/acpi/wakeup && echo XHC > /proc/acpi/wakeup
 966 | }
 967 | 

 968 | case $1 in
 969 |     pre) run_pre_hook ;;
 970 |     post) run_post_hook ;;
 971 | esac
 972 |
973 |
974 | 975 | Original solution: https://gist.github.com/ioggstream/8f380d398aef989ac455b93b92d42048 976 | 977 | ### Playbook 02: Fix GRUB screen resolution 978 | 979 | _This can help if you have very tiny grub font on your 4k monitor_ 980 | 981 | 1. Open `/etc/default/grub` with text editor and add following lines: 982 | 983 |
984 | 
 985 | GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"
 986 | GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
 987 | GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080x32,1024x768x32,auto
 988 |
989 |
990 | 991 | 2. Generate `grub.cfg`: 992 | 993 |
994 | 
 995 | $ sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
 996 |
997 |
998 | 999 | ### Playbook 03: Fix Lightdm screen resolution 1000 | 1001 | _This can help if you use lightdm and have very tiny font on your 4k monitor_ 1002 | 1003 |
1004 |

Open /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file and add following line under [Seat:\*] section:

1005 | 
1006 | display-setup-script=xrandr --output eDP-1 --mode 1920x1080
1007 |
1008 | P.S. your screen output name, like eDP-1 in my case, can be found in xrandr -q 1009 |
1010 | 1011 | ### Playbook 04: Activate dark mode in GTK apps 1012 | 1013 |
1014 | 
1015 | $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme 'prefer-dark'
1016 |
1017 |
1018 | 1019 | ### Playbook 05: System goes to sleep too fast with Xfce 1020 | 1021 | - If system goes to sleep after 3-5 minutes, this might be screensaver. 1022 | To stop this, disable option `Settings -> Screensaver -> Activate Screensaver when computer is idle`. 1023 | 1024 | ### Playbook 06: All requests, expept those to internal addresses, fail after launching Wireguard VPN 1025 | 1026 | - This happens when your Wireguard server can only handle requests only to configured IP addresses and DNS names. 1027 | Use `resolvectl revert wg0` (change `wg0` to your wireguard interface name). 1028 | This will prevent system from using Wireguard interface for all routes. 1029 | 1030 | ### Playbook 07: Screen freezed (or hangs) after 2-10 minutes of inactivity when using Picom 1031 | 1032 | - If you screen freezes (or hangs) while not touching keyboard or mouse for some time (usually 2-10 minutes), 1033 | this might be an issue with picom. Try first stopping picom at all to see if this helps. 1034 | If yes, try to change rendering backend of picom from `xrender` to `glx` and check if it helps. 1035 | Worked for me. 1036 | 1037 | ### Playbook 08: Remove annoying menubar from Slack 1038 | 1039 | - `Window -> Always show menu bar -> disable` 1040 | 1041 | ### Playbook 09: Encrypt external disk 1042 | 1043 | 1. [Only once] Select disk partition to be encrypted (in this example `/dev/sdb1`) and initialize LUKS: 1044 | 1045 |
1046 | 
1047 | $ sudo cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdb1
1048 |
1049 |
1050 | 1051 | 2. Open and decrypt LUKS partition, this will create decrypted device at `/dev/mapper/cryptdev`: 1052 | 1053 |
1054 | 
1055 | $ sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sdb1 cryptdev
1056 |
1057 |
1058 | 1059 | 3. [Only once] Initialize filesystem on decrypted partition, in this example `ext4`: 1060 | 1061 |
1062 | 
1063 | $ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/cryptdev
1064 |
1065 |
1066 | 1067 | 4. Mount created filesystem, to `/mnt` folder in this example, and use it as you want: 1068 | 1069 |
1070 | 
1071 | $ sudo mount /dev/mapper/cryptdev /mnt
1072 |
1073 |
1074 | 1075 | 5. Unmount filesystem and close LUKS device after using it: 1076 | 1077 |
1078 | 
1079 | $ sudo umount /mnt
1080 | $ sudo cryptsetup close cryptdev
1081 |
1082 |
1083 | 1084 | 6. [If needed] Change LUKS disk encryption passphrase: 1085 | 1086 |
1087 | TLDR: LUKS generates a single master key (also known as the "encryption key"), which is used to encrypt 1088 | the data on the disk. Instead of storing the master key directly, LUKS uses key slots. Each slot contains the 1089 | master key encrypted with a unique password or other authentication information. To change the password, we 1090 | need to obtain LUKS slot number for the current key. 1091 |
1092 | 1093 |
1094 | 
1095 | $ sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sdb1             # most probably it will be 0
1096 | $ sudo cryptsetup luksChangeKey /dev/sdb1 -S 0   # use your own slot number in -S parameter
1097 |
1098 |
1099 | 1100 | ### Playbook 10: Fix external microphone artefacts happening after ~20 minutes of connection 1101 | 1102 | 1. Open `/etc/pulse/daemon.conf`. 1103 | 2. Set `exit-idle-time = -1`. Don't forget to uncomment this line if it's commented. 1104 | 3. Stop pulseaudio service: `pulseaudio -k` 1105 | 4. Clear pulseaudio cache: `rm -r ~/.config/pulse/*` 1106 | 5. Start pulseaudio once again: `pulseaudio --start` 1107 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /logo.png: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/silentz/arch-linux-install-guide/d89b84fe65a472c24967ccf903fec3d70fe80899/logo.png --------------------------------------------------------------------------------