Arch Linux

Arch Linux has been my daily driver for the past two years of using Linux.

Installation guide supplement

A wireless network can be connected to using wpa_supplicant.
- 1's i's and L's may look very similar when inputting an SSID.
cfdisk can be used to partition disks graphically.
- M stands for MB and G stands for GB.
- Remember to have an EFI partition if necessary. EFIs have the type 'EFI system' and roots have the type 'Linux filesystem.'
Install networkmanager with pacstrap for networking.
Install efibootmgr and os-prober for multiple operating systems.
Install vim or nano for text editing.

-Syu synchronizes repository databases and updates all packages
-S [package(s)] install packages
- Repositories must be defined if multiple versions are present in different ones.
-R [package(s)] remove packages, leaving dependencies installed
-Rs [package(s)] remove packages, uninstalling dependencies not required by other packages
-Rsc [package(s)] remove packages recursively, uninstalling dependencies and packages using those dependencies
-Rn add the n option to any of the previous remove commands to also remove important configuration backup files
-Ss [string(s)] search for an uninstalled package
-Qs [string(s)] search for installed packages
-Qdt list orphans

pacman can ignore packages in /etc/pacman.conf, specified by the IgnorePkg line.

Install an AUR helper, like yay, to help with the AUR. Options are the same as pacman.

xdg-settings can set default applications if the desktop environment doesn't have an option for it.

Example:

xdg-settings set default-web-browser brave.desktop

Example:

reflector --country "United States" --age 12 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Page added on 2021-11-10, last edited on: 2021-12-30

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