This is just yet a personal reminder of what to do when setting up an Arch Linux environment.

Installation

Connect to internet

Wired

Should be connected automatically.

With WiFi

# wifi-menu
# ping google.com

in case not working,

# ip link set (network interface) up
# iw (network interface) scan
# wpa_supplicant (connect point) >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
~passphrase~
# wpa_supplicant -B -D (protocol, wext) -i (connect point) -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# dhclient (network interface)

Partitioning & Formatting

Use gdisk

BIOS-GPT

1007KiB - BIOS boot partition Rest - /

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/(root)

DO NOT FORMAT BIOS boot partition

UEFI-GPT

512MiB - EFI System Partition Rest - /

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/(root)
# mkfs.vfat -V -F 32 /dev/(EFI system partition)

LVM

pvcreate vgcreate lvcreate -L [M,G,T...] -l [%] -n label name and pass the vg name as argument

Mount

Mount to /mnt

# mount /dev/(root) /mnt

Pacstrap

# vi /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

bring up ftp.jaist.ac.jp and tsukuba.wide.ad.jp

# pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

Generate Fstab

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

Enter fakeroot

# arch-chroot /mnt

Language Environment

Generate Locale

# vi /etc/locale.gen

comment out en_US, ja_JP, zh_CN

# locale-gen

LANG

# echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
# export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Timezone

# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo /etc/localtime

Hostname configuration

# echo (hostname) >> /etc/locale.conf
# vi /etc/hosts
   127.0.1.1 ().localdomain ()

Mkinitcpio

If using lvm2

# pacman -S lvm2
# vi /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
   HOOKS="base systemd ... block sd-lvm2 filesystems"
# mkinitcpio -p linux

Bootloader

BIOS

# pacman -S grub
# grub-install /dev/sda
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

UEFI

# pacman -S grub
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
# mount /dev/(efi partition) /mnt/boot/efi
# grub-install --targer=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=$esp --bootloader-id=grub --recheck --debug
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Network

If wired

# systemctl enable dhcpcd

If using wifi

# pacman -S wireless_tools wpa_supplicant wpa_actiond dialog networkmanager iw

Reboot

# exit
# umount -R /mnt
# reboot

Basic Setup

Connect to the internet

Wired

should be connected automatically

Wifi

# wifi-menu

User

# useradd -m -g wheel zaen
# passwd zaen
~password~

Sudo (Substitute User DO)

#visudo

Desktop Environment

Video Driver

Intel

# pacman -S xf86-video-intel mesa-libgl lib32-mesa-libgl

NVIDIA

Nouveau

# pacman -S xf85-video-nouveau mesa lib32-mesa mesa-libgl lib32-mesa-libgl

Proprietary (preferable)

# pacman -S nvidia nvidia-libgl lib32-nvidia-libgl

Plasma

Xorg

# pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit xorg-xclock xterm
# pacman -S plasma konsole

Wayland

# pacman -S wayland weston
# pacman -S plasma konsole

Display Manager

# pacman -S sddm
# systemctl enable sddm

# reboot

Setup Pacaur

Install cower

$ gpg --recv-keys 487EACC08557AD082088DABA1EB2638FF56C0C53
$ git clone --depth=1 "https://aur.archlinux.org/cower.git"
$ cd cower
$ makepkg -si
$ cd ..

Install Pacaur

$ cower -d pacaur
$ cd pacaur
$ makepkg -si

Software setup

Use Pacaur

Basic Tools

mono vim emacs unzip zip gwenview okular poppler-data dolphin ffmpegthumbs kde-thumbnailer-odf kcalc jupyter-notebook

Bluetooth

bluez bluez-utils

Fonts

bdf and bdf.gz bitmap fonts, bitmap distribution format and gzip compressed bdf pcf and pcf.gz bitmaps, portable compiled font and gzip compressed pcf psf, psfu, psf.gz and psfu.gz bitmaps, PC screen font, PC screen font Unicode and the gzipped versions (not compatible with X.Org) pfa and pfb outline fonts, PostScript font ASCII and PostScript font binary. PostScript fonts carry built-in printer instructions. ttf outline, TrueType font. Originally designed as a replacement for the PostScript fonts. otf outline, OpenType font. TrueType with PostScript typographic instructions.

ttf-droid ttf-dejavu ttf-ms-fonts ttf-bookerly (amazon Kindle) ttf-roboto adobe-source-code-pro-fonts

Japanese

adobe-source-han-sans-jp-fonts otf-ipafont otf-ipaexfont ttf-hanazono ttf-sazanami ttf-mona ttf-koruri otf-takao ttf-sawarabi-mincho ttf-monapo ttf-vlgothic

Interesting otf-hannari-mincho otf-harenosora-mincho otf-ipamjfont (for work) ttf-ume

Chinese

adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts adobe-source-han-sans-tw-fonts wqy-microhei ttf-tw

Sync

insync dropbox synergy

System Information

udisks2 d-feet hwinfo

Document

libreoffice still or fresh libreoffice-extension-texmaths pandoc

Media

audacious mpv alsa-utils

Language Packages

C

clang cmake

Python

python python2 python-pip python2-pip python-pycurl python2-pycurl

Java

jdk7-openjdk jdk8-openjdk jre7-openjdk jre8-openjdk

Javascript

js nodejs npm

Ruby

gem

# gem install rake

Haskell

ghc cabal-install alex happy

Qt & Gtk

qt5 qt4 python2-pyqt4 python2-pyqt5 python-pyqt4 python-pyqt5 gtk3 gtk2 pygtk

Input

fcitx fcitx-mozc fcitx-googlepinyin fcitx-gtk2 fxitx-gtk3 fcitx-qt4 fcitx-qt5 kcm-fcitx

~/.xprofile export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx export DefaultIMModule=fcitx

Emacs-mozc

Install mozc http://ain0204.hatenablog.com/entry/2016/08/12/235206

Telecommunication

skype skypeforlinux-bin

Development Environment

eclipse-java android-studio atom qtcreator

Creation

Graphic

gimp inkspace aseprite

Video Editing

simplescreenrecorder kdenlive

Audio

kwave

Screen

xflux

pacaur -S xflux xflux -l 39 -g 140

Nvidia

nvidia-settings

Print (CUPS)

cups cups-pdf

org.cups.cupsd.service

VirtualBox

virtualbox virtual-host-modules-archlinux virtualbox-guest-iso

Guest system

virtualbox-guest-utils

Wine

wine

File systems

exfat-utils exFAT ntfs-3g NTFS

Network

traceroute iptables tcsd

Driver

wd719x-firmware aic94xx-firmware

Razer

razer-drivers razer-driver-meta polychromatic

Zim

python2-gtkspellcheck
gtkspell
aspell-en
gtksourceview2
graphviz
ditaa
texlive-lang
r
gnuplot
lilypond
pip install seqdiag
zeitgeist
 activity-log-manager
 zeitgeist-explorer

Reference: http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins.html

Android

Android Debug Bridge mtpfs android-tools android-udev

# passwd -a zaen adbusers
$ adb devices

	Oneplus 3T will be recognized by default

Fastboot android-tools

Shortcuts

Ctrl+alt+Q Qt Creator Ctrl+alt+W Ctrl+alt+E Ctrl+alt+R Ctrl+alt+T Terminal Ctrl+alt+Y Ctrl+alt+U Ctrl+alt+I Ctrl+alt+O Ctrl+alt+P Ctrl+alt+A Ctrl+alt+S Settings Ctrl+alt+D Ctrl+alt+F Dolphin Ctrl+alt+G Ctrl+alt+H Ctrl+alt+K Ctrl+alt+L Ctrl+alt+Z Zim Ctrl+alt+X Ctrl+alt+C Chromium Ctrl+alt+V Ctrl+alt+B Ctrl+alt+N Nvidia Settings Ctrl+alt+M Calculator

KDE Ctrl + Q Quit program