Arch Linux Installation

[faversani]

Can anyone pls guide me through the process of installing arch linux on VMWare Win 10 or even dual boot with Win 10

any blog guide or vid tutorial will also do 

 

[Nayr438]

I use this site as a reference occasionally. However your Desktop Environment and Applications will be up to you to decide. 

https://www.tecmint.com/arch-linux-installation-and-configuration-guide/

 

The Install will be the same for both. Allocate Space on a Drive or Dedicate a Drive to the install.

If your dual booting on the same drive you can just re-use the Windows EFI Fat32 Partition instead of creating a new one.

If your dedicating a full drive, use cfdisk -z /dev/drive and select GPT, this will wipe the entire drive. The -z is what wipes it.

 

dhcpcd is Arch's default networkmanager, however most Desktop Environments use NetworkManager. Only enable one of them not both.

 

You will have to manually install all dependencies for your applications and enable services as needed. What comes with a Application on say Ubuntu, could be 5 sperate optionally dependencies on Arch. Be sure to read any dependency outputs as you install things.

For Example, pacman -S plasma, will pull basically everything to run the KDE Plasma environment and nothing else. No File Manager, no terminal, etc... When you install say dolphin file manager, it will not automatically install thumbnail support, you will need to pull those dependencies. Most full environments do however pull a login manager, in the instance of plasma, its sddm. 

Your login manager will not just start, your network wont just work. You will need to enable them, for example systemctl enable sddm ... systemctl enable NetworkManager

 

You can search for packages as your setting up your install using pacman -Ss keywords

 

don't use archlinuxfr or yaourt that are referenced in the guide, if you want to use the AUR. Look at Yay If you want access to TKG Builds and some AUR stuff pre-compiled, you can add the Chaotic-AUR. Yay uses the same commands as pacman.

 

The Arch Wiki will be your friend. It has a fairly large community of maintainers and things are updated constantly.

 

You will probably want all-repository-fonts from the AUR if you want decent fonts.

If using yay then yay -S all-repository-fonts.

If not using yay

• git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/all-repository-fonts.git
• cd all-repository-fonts && makepkg -si

If you plan to compile anything, so most everything in the AUR, you will want to edit /etc/makepkg.conf and uncomment and edit MAKEFLAGS="-j2" replacing 2 with your cpu's thread count.

 

Its hard to give a full guide as everyone's setup is different. There is no set way to Setup Arch.

I use the f2fs and xfs filesystem, manage swap dynamically with systemd-swap, use kwin-lowlatency in plasma, and use a tkg pds kernel build form the chaotic-aur for instance, along with several other things. Your setup will be entirely preference.

 

[Sauron]

1 hour ago, faversani said:

Can anyone pls guide me through the process of installing arch linux on VMWare Win 10 or even dual boot with Win 10

any blog guide or vid tutorial will also do 

 

The best guide is available on the arch wiki

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide

[HotCheeseNachozAndBurritoz]

The Arch Wiki is a great resource. If you are unable to read it, I would recommend against Arch. If you want the goodness of AUR and rolling release, try Manjaro. Arch is only good after you have some Linux experience under your belt.

[MaxPower4U]

This is a good video, covers everything required to dual boot Arch and Windows 10.