Fresh install arch linux

arch.md

How to install Arch

• Boot into Live ISO
• Load keyboard layout
• timedatectl set-ntp true
• Make a boot, swap and root partition.
• Format boot using mkfs.fat -F 32
• Format swap using mkswap
• Format root with mkfs.ext4
• Mount root to /mnt
• mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi and mount the boot partition there.
• Activate the swap using swapon
• pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware pipewire pipewire-pulse doas grub efibootmgr os-prober dhcpcd iwd amd-ucode neovim archlinux-keyring
• genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
• arch-chroot /mnt
• ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Manila /etc/localtime
• hwclock --systohc
• nvim /etc/locale.gen
• locale-gen
• echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.conf
• systemctl enable dhcpcd
• systemctl enable iwd
• useradd -m -G wheel,audio,video -s /bin/bash aivan
• echo "permit persist :wheel" > /etc/doas.conf
• passwd
• grub-install /dev/sda
• grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
• exit umount -R /mnt reboot and done!

Steps I've done after installing Arch Linux

• Configure /etc/default/grub and disable timeout and enable os-prober.
• Ensure Microsoft EFI is inside /mnt/boot if os-prober doesn't show up.
• Installed cups for printing.

Configuring home

• Hyprland
  • ~/.config/hypr/
  • ~/.local/bin/start-desktop.sh
• Waybar
  • ~/.local/bin/start-waybar.sh
• Alacritty
  • ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml
• Wallpapers
  • git clone https://github.com/aishenreemo/wallpapers .wallpapers
• Neovim

Setting up Printer

Printer Model: Brother DCP-T720DW

• Run this series of commands.

doas paru -Syy cups brother-dcp-t720dw nss-mdns avahi ghostscript gsfonts
doas systemctl enable --now avahi
doas systemctl enable --now cups

• Modify /etc/nsswitch.conf to ensure mdns is used for hostname resolution.

hosts: files mymachines mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns

• Go to CUPS home page http://localhost:631/ and add the printer (make sure it is turned on).

Setting up Git

• Download all keys on Google Drive.
• Copy all ssh keys to ~/.ssh.
• chmod 600 the private ssh key.
• Run this

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

• Import all public and private gpg keys.

• Configure git

git config --global user.name "Aishen Reemo"
git config --global user.email "aish3n@pm.me"
git config --global commit.gpgSign true
git config --global gpg.program gpg
gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long
git config --global user.signingkey HASH_KEY

• Use pinentry-curses to gnupg

mkdir -p ~/.gnupg
echo 'pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses' > ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
gpg-connect-agent reloadagent /bye