Table of Contents

• Screenshots
• Pre installation
  • Create live USB
• Installation
  • Live USB
    • Change keymap
    • Setup disks
      • Partition disks
      • Format partitions
      • Mount file systems
      • Generate /etc/fstab
    • Install Arch on disk
  • System setup
    • Minor tweaks
      • Set timezone
      • Set locale
      • Set keymap
      • Set hostname
    • Set root password
    • Install important packages
    • Setup GRUB
      • [yoga] Add Windows entry
    • Create user
    • Reboot
• Setup
  • Network
    • Enable NetworkManager
    • Setup WiFi
  • Yaourt
  • Graphical interface
    • Intall XOrg, Display Manager and Window Manager
    • Enable lightdm
    • Set i3 keymap
    • Set i3 default terminal emulator
    • [yoga] Set resolution at startup
  • [yoga] Touchpad driver
  • Dotfiles
    • Install homesick
    • Recover dotfiles
    • Update dotfiles
  • Packages
    • Pacman packages
    • AUR packages
    • PIP3 packages
• Other
  • VS Code extensions
    • Dump extension list
    • Restore extensions
  • Create live USB
• Installation
  • Live USB
    • Change keymap
    • Setup disks
      • Partition disks
      • Format partitions
      • Mount file systems
      • Generate /etc/fstab
    • Install Arch on disk
  • System setup
    • Minor tweaks
      • Set timezone
      • Set locale
      • Set keymap
      • Set hostname
    • Set root password
    • Install important packages
    • Setup GRUB
      • [yoga] Add Windows entry
    • Create user
    • Reboot
• Setup
  • Network
    • Enable NetworkManager
    • Setup WiFi
  • Yaourt
  • Graphical interface
    • Intall XOrg, Display Manager and Window Manager
    • Enable lightdm
    • Set i3 keymap
    • Set i3 default terminal emulator
    • [yoga] Set resolution at startup
  • [yoga] Touchpad driver
  • Dotfiles
    • Install homesick
    • Recover dotfiles
    • Update dotfiles
  • Packages
    • Pacman packages
    • AUR packages
    • PIP3 packages
• Other
  • VS Code extensions
    • Dump extension list
    • Restore extensions

Screenshots

Pre installation

Create live USB

$ dd if=arch-linux.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M conv=fsync

Change ISO file name and output device name

Installation

Live USB

Change keymap

$ loadkeys be-latin1

Setup disks

Name	Format	Size	Mount	Note
/dev/sda1	FAT32	512Mo	/boot	Only needed for UEFI boot
/dev/sda2	EXT4	*	/	System partition
/dev/sda3	swap	= RAM	swapon	Swap partition

Partition disks

$ fdisk /dev/sda

Format partitions

$ mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
$ mkfs.ext4     /dev/sda2
$ mkswap        /dev/sda3

Mount file systems

$ swapon /dev/sda3
$ mount  /dev/sda2 /mnt
$ mkdir  /mnt/boot
$ mount  /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot !only for UEFI

Install Arch on disk

$ pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

Generate /etc/fstab

Automatically mounts filesystems at boot

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

System setup

Now that Arch is installed, change root to the new system

$ arch-chroot /mnt

Minor tweaks

Set timezone

$ ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
$ hwclock --systohc

Set locale

Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and other needed localizations in /etc/locale.gen

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

Set keymap

$ localectl set-keymap --no-convert be-latin1

Set hostname

$ echo "myhostname" > /etc/hostname
$ echo "127.0.1.1	myhostname.localdomain	myhostname" >> /etc/hosts

Set root password

$ passwd

Install important packages

• intel-ucode
• grub
• efibootmgr
• zsh

$ pacman -S intel-ucode networkmanager grub efibootmgr zsh

Setup GRUB

$ grub-install --efi-directory=/boot /dev/sda
$ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Add Windows entry

Follow this article

Create user

$ useradd -m <username>
$ passwd <username>
$ chsh -s /bin/zsh <username>

Then add the following line to /etc/sudoers

<username> ALL=(ALL) ALL

Reboot

$ exit
$ umount /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2
$ reboot

Remove the installation media and boot on the new system

Setup

Network (netctl)

Create configuration file

# nano /etc/netctl/ethernet-static
Interface=eno1
IP=static
Address=('ip/24')
Gateway=('192.168.0.1')
DNS=('8.8.8.8' '8.8.4.4')

Graphical interface

Intall XOrg, Display Manager and Window Manager

• xorg
• lightdm
• lightdm-gtk-greeter
• i3-gaps-next-git
• i3lock-next-git

$ yes | pacman -S xorg lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter
# yes | yaourt -S i3-gaps-next-git i3lock-next-git

Enable lightdm

$ systemctl enable lightdm.service

Set i3 keymap

$ localectl set-x11-keymap be

Set i3 default terminal emulator

$ localectl set-x11-keymap be

[yoga] Set resolution at startup

Create /usr/share/lightdm.sh

# touch /usr/share/lightdm.sh
# chmod a+rx /usr/share/lightdm.sh

Containing the following text

#!/bin/bash
xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode eDP-1 1920x1080_60.00
xrandr --output eDP-1 --mode 1920x1080_60.00

Append the following text to /etc/lightdm/ligthdm.conf in the [Seat:*] section

display-setup-script=/usr/share/lightdm.sh

[yoga] Touchpad driver

$ yes | pacman -S libinput

Create file /etc/x11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf containing

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Synaptics TM3066-082"
    Driver "libinput"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    Option "Tapping" "on"
    Option "TappingButtonMap" "lmr"
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Dotfiles

Install homesick

Homesick

# yes | yaourt -S homesick

Recover dotfiles

# homesick clone phito/dotfiles
# homesick link dotfiles

Update dotfiles

# homesick pull dotfiles

Packages

Pacman packages

Name	Notes
firefox	Web browser
git	Version Control System
termite	Terminal emulator
guake	Terminal emulator (F12)
compton	X11 compositor
rofi	Application launcher
redshift	Adjusts the computer display's color temperature based upon the time of day
variety	Wallpaper manager
scrot	Screenshot manager
feh	X11 image viewer (for wallpaper)
xclip	cli cliboard manager
openssh
mplayer	Video player, mostly for codecs
ranger	File manager (cli)
dotnet-runtime-2.0	DotNet Core runtime
python-pip	Python package manager
jdk-8-openjdk	Java jdk
maven	Java build system
mariadb	SQL database system
xf86-input-synaptics	Touchpad driver

$ yes | pacman -S firefox termite compton rofi guake redshift variety scrot feh xclip openssh mplayer ranger dotnet-runtime-2.0 python-pip jdk-8-openjdk maven mariadb xf86-input-synaptics

AUR packages

Name	Notes
polybar	i3 status bar
homesick	Dotfile manager
ttf-mplus	Font
ttf-font-awesome	Font
otf-fantasque-sans-mono	Font
i3lock-color	Screen locker (required for i3lock-next)
i3lock-next-git	Screen locker
visual-studio-code	IDE
icu55	International Components for Unicode library (required to debug C#)
neofetch	System informations (cli)
dotnet-sdk-2.0	DotNet Core sdk
mullvad	VPN client
oh-my-zsh	zsh config manager

# yes | pacaur -S polybar homesick ttf-mplus ttf-font-awesome ttf-fantasque-sans-mono i3lock-color i3lock-next-git visual-studio-code icu55 neofetch dotnet-sdk-2.0 mullvad oh-my-zsh

PIP3 packages

Name	Notes
requests

$ pip3 install requests

Other

VS Code extensions

Dump extension list

# code --list-extensions > vscode-extensions

Restore extensions

# while read in; do code --install-extension $in; done <vscode-extensions