hello everyone welcome back to thechannel and a new video today it'smonthly installation day so we are goingto install arch with the april 2022 isowe're going to install it with theencrypted battery festival system whichwas very requested we're going toinstall it with time shift time shiftauto snap and the kde desktopenvironment and also z ramso without further ado it's going to bequite a long video let's get going[Music][Applause][Music]so here we go guys this is the monthlyinstallation of arch with the april 2022iso you can see we have some newcolors here on the login prompt now iwill install this on a virtual machineand you can see here i logged throughssh to that machine i had to givethe root user a password on the virtualmachine and once i've done that you canconnect using the ssh command root addand the ip address of yourvirtual machine that you can find outwith ipspace aand once you enter your password you canbasically install your arch installationvia sshso now i'm logged in here as a root useryou can see i am on the arch iso now thefirst thing here i'm going to do is toactually check again my internetconnection by typing in ipspace awhich is now coded actually with colorwhich is easier to read you can see mymachine has an ipending with 1 5 6 here this is the sameip i used to logging the ssh of courseso let's clean up the terminal with ctrll and type in lsplkyou can see also in this machine i haveone disk called sda which is 50gigabytes in sizeso what i'm going to do in this videoi'm going to install arch here this isgoing to be a little bit more complexbecause we're going to install archwith a badder fs file system and withencryption and we're going to use aspecial encryption method here so we'regoing to create a efi partition becausethis is a ufi machineand also one partition which is going toinclude a root and a home volume we aregoing to encrypt this butterfest filesystem here and later we are going toinstall a cram and also time shift andtime shift auto snapso let's get going here let's begin theinstallation the first thing we want todo is to partition our diskso to do this i'm going to use gdiskbecause it's a tool for partitioningdisks with the gpt label so i'm going totype in here gdiskand then slash dev for device and thenslash staso creating new gpt entries in memorythat's fine so the first partition weare going to create is the efi partitionso n for newthe partition number is one that's fineand for the first sector i'm going toaccept the default by hitting enter onthe keyboardand the last sector defines the size ofthe partition in this case i'm going todoplus 300 maybe byte partition for theefi partition that should be enoughnow the code for this partition is ef00that's the code for the efi systempartition as you can see thereand next we're going to create the nextpartition which is going to be ourbutterfs partition so and for newand i'm going to accept here all thedefaults for the partition number thefirst sector and the last sectorthe code as welland now we can write the changes to thedisk by typing in w and confirm byhitting y and hit enterand you can see now if i type in lsblkwe have there sta1 and sda2so now we created the partitions and weneed to now format them now let's beginwith the efi partition that's an easyone so let's type in mkfsdot fatdash f32 because we want it to be a fat32 file system type being an efipartition and then the partition pathagain is slash dev slash sda1 and thenhit enternow before we proceed partitioning ourbattery fs volume we need to firstcreate the encryption now before we aregoing to encrypt the partition let meopen up here a new terminal just veryquicklyand let me increase the font size hereso that you can see better i'm going toput it here on the side and i'm going toincrease it hereso this terminal is actually on my mainmachine this is not on the virtualmachine you can see the login prompt isdifferent and let me type in here cryptsetupwhich is the utility we need to encryptthe partitions and thenhelpbecause i want to show you the defaultsfor this utilityso you can see here let me actuallydecrease a little bit the fonts here sothat you can see maybe a little biteasierso you can see here we have the defaultsfor the cipher so the cipher isbasically what's defining the encryptionof your partition and you can seebecause we are going to use luxencryption on the partition the defaultsfor lux encryption are aes xts plain 64which is finewe have the key and the hashing which is256. so this is actually not what i wantin this video i want to actually createa sh a 512 encryption which is alsoslightly faster on a pc with a 64-bitprocessorand then it's using that dev u random bydefault so i want to use this optionand i want to use also this option but idon't want to use the 256 i want to usethe 512 so we're going to create thisfrom scratch basically so let me closethe terminaland let's now encrypt the partition bytyping encryptsetupand then we are going to define thecipher socipher and we're going to give in thedefaults that we want for this cipherwhich already defined so i need to typein here aes dotxtsdot plane64 and then dash dash hash now for thehash here i'm going to create the sha512which is the key i wantand then i'm going to use also this dashdash usedash random that we had already as adefault before and also dash dash verifydash pass phrase and then we're going tospecify the luxformatand then our partition path which isslash dev slash sta2 remember this isthe one we created for the mainpartitionand that's gonna be it for it so we canhit enter hereso are you sure you want to do this andi am so i need to type in here yes incapital letters and hit enter and now ineed to enter my passphrase for thepartition so i'm going to enter onepassword hereand we'll have to verifyand it's going to take a moment here toencrypt the partition and the encryptionis now doneso now before we can format thispartition we need to open it now to openit we can use the cryptsetup lux openand then the partition path again isslash devsta2and then the name we want to give to themapper partition which is going to becreated and we'll need to mount thislater when we are mounting the partitionso i'm going to call this partition rootvery simplyand thanks to zsh which is correcting mytypo and yes it is script setup so i'mgoing to hit y hereso we need to enter the passphraseand it's going to take a moment here todecrypt the partition and now thepartition is basically openand we can now format it so let's formatthe partition by typing in mkfsdot battery fsand then we need to use the mapperdevice which we just created when weopen the partition so slash devslash mapper slash rootand then hit enterso the partition is now formatted let'sclean up the terminal with ctrl land again ls blkyou can see there again we have our twopartitions and the encrypted rootpartition which is now open because wejust formatted but it's going to beagain encrypted when we reboot ourmachine so now that the partition isformatted we need to mount it and createour sub volumes so let's first mount thebattery fs partition by typing in mountslash dev slash mapper we're going touse again the mapper device here slashroot and we're going to mount this onslash mntand then hit enternow we can move into the m t directoryto create our sub volume so cd slash m tand let's create now our sub volumesso the first volume i'm going to createis the roots of volume so butterfssubvolumecreateand i'm going to define the roots ofvolume with the add symbol and then hitenternow i want to create also a home subvolume so i'm going to pull up the lastcommand here with the up arrow and addhome at the end of the add symbol tocreate the home so volumeand so these are the twos of volumes iwant to have in my system so i'm goingto go back to the main directory herewith cdand unmount the mount partition so umountslash m tand i unmounted the mount partitionbecause now i need to remountthe two sub volumes i just created inthere with its own optionsso i'm gonna type in first mountdash o for options now the options i'mgoing to use for battery fs are theusual options i'm using all the time oneis no access time so no a time to makethe access time of the disk a little bitfasteri'm gonna use also the space cacheand i'm gonna use version two becausethat's the one that works the spacecache version one is not workingand i'm gonna use also the compressoptioni'm going to use here the zstdcompression methodi'm going to use also the ssd optionand also the discardsequal async option which is basicallygoing to optimize the performance of thessdand those are the all options i want ineed to also use of course the subwoolto define this of volume equal to theroots of volume because we are mountinghere the roots of volume firstand then we need to define the mapperdevice so slash devslash mapper slash root because this isthe device we want to mount and we wantto mount it undermntand then hit enternow before mounting the homes of volumeand theboot partition we need to create thedirectories for those so let's type inhere mkederand slash m t because we need to createthose partitions in thereand i'm going to open the curly braceshere and create them both at once so iwant to have the boot partitionand also the home partition so the bootdirectory is going to be used to mountthe sdi one partition which is the efipartitionand the home directory is going to beused to mount the home sub volume then ican close the curly brace and hit enterso i'm going to pull up the last twocommands here because i want to use thesame options for the homes volume but ineed to change the sub volume and thedirectory to mount it onso this volume is not the roots ofvolume here but it's the homes of volumeand the mount point is not the mountdirectory but mount slash home and thenhit enterso now i can mount basically also theefi partition by typing in mountslash dev sta1 i don't need any optionhere on slash m t slash bootand then hit enterso for this tutorial later i'm going touse systemd boot to boot up the machineand we are going to need to configurealso the encryption in thereso basically the amount points are nowdone and we can proceed by installingthe base system so let's type in herepackstrapslash mnt because we want to install thepackages in the mnt directory which isour installation directory and thepackages i want to use are basethe base packages and then linux for thelatest linux kernel i'm going to installalso the linuxdash firmware package to install thebasic firmware for the computeri'm going to install also gits and vimmy editor you can of course choose nanoor any other editor if you preferand i'm going to use also amd dash ucode because the machine has an amdprocessorand that's going to be it for the baseinstallations here for the base packagesthat i said and then i can just hitenter it's going to synchronize therepositories and install the packagesyou can see also therethis iso is installing with the517.1 kernel which is the latest linuxkernel availableand it's going to take a moment here toinstall the packages so i'm going topause the video here guys and i'll beback with you once it's doneso the paste packages have beeninstalled we need to now generate a filesystem table for our mount points so todo this we can type ingen fstabdash capital u to use the uu ids of thepartitionsand we're going to take the ones we haveon slash m t and we're going to appendthem to slash m t slash etsy slash fstyle which was just created now becausewe installed the base packagesso this is now done we can move into thenew installation here by typing in archtruth on slash m t again remember m t isour installed directoryso you can see the login prompts changebecause we are now in the newinstallation hereand the first thing i'm going to do i'mgoing to work on themkinitcpio.com file because we are usingencryption and i want to define also thebutterfs module so to do this we cantype in vim slash etsy slashmkinitcpio.comand then the first thing is undermodules here i'm going to insertbutterfsand if i scroll down here to the hooksection which is down somewhere herewe need to enter here before filesystemsthe encrypt hook so let's type in hereencryptand a space of courseand we can save this file and exit theedit or whichever editor you're usingi'm using beam so it's called xand now because we inserted the hookthere we need to recreate the init ramfs to do this we need to type in mk initcpio dash pon linux and that's because we installedthe linux kernel and then hit enterso next i'm going to download my scriptto install the base packages for arch soi'm going to use git for thisgit cloneand then https colon slash and thengitlab.comslash ef linux that's my username slasharch install base now this is my againprivate repositoryyou can use the public repository towhich i will leave a link in the videodescription below so replace the name ofthe repositoryinstead of arch install base i thinkit's arch install publicand you can replace basically the nameof the repository there and you will notbe askedto authenticate unlike in this casebecause it's my private one so let meenter my username and the passwordand now if i type in ls-l you can see ihave arch installed based there on thetop so we need to move in thereso cd arch install baseand again ls shell here and i have mykind of scripts actually these are justcommand lines they are not reallyscripts here nothing really fancy to seethe one i need right now is the basescript so let me type in vimbase dot shand i have beer basically the commandsused to install arch now i've done manytutorials on installing arch line byline so you can check those up if youwant to have more infos and i'm going todo others of course in the future aswell but for this i'm going to use thisbasically script which is including thelines to install arch so i'm going touse here this command to createbasically my local zone my time zonesynchronizing the hardware clock on thesystem clock i'm setting the locale hereby basically deleting the hashtag online 178 of the locale.gen file which isthe english us locale and then generatethe locale themselves with docel-genentering the same string here on thelocal.com fileentering the key map for my keyboardwhich is not a us keyboard on thevconsole.com file creating the hostnameon the hostname file here and alsocreating the hosts entrywith these three commands here and alsocreating the password for the root userso let me actually show you this becausebecause some of you had issues with thispassword command here so basically whathappens here we are basically creatingthe password name passwordfor the root user this ch password hereis actually the command used to createthis password the password we arecreating here is this oneand this is actually the command used todo that so if you want to change thepassword for reduced user you're goingto change this one here and not this onehereso replace this password with thepassword of your choice and the samegoes also for the user down here so i'mcreating here a user named after mebecause it's my user and if you want tochange the password for this user changethis password hereand not this one this is the commandused to change the passwordso just remember that because some ofyou i think had issues understandingthisthen i'm going to install here somepackages these are the basic packages iuse to install archso what i'm going to change here i'mgoing to actually need to confirmi want to confirm here and i don't wantto install grub this time because i'mgoing to use system debutso i'm going to eliminate thisand yes i'm going to use network managerhere i'm going to use the other packagesi can actually delete a reflectorbecause it's there twice i always forgetto delete this in the repositoryi think i'm going to leave everythingelse as it is hereand so down here if you have an amd cardyou can basically uncomment this linewhich is providing you the driver foramd cards and if you have an nvidia cardyou can uncomment the second line whichis providing you everything for nvidianow i'm going to comment out here thisline for grub because we are not goingto use grab hereand these are basically system ctlcontrols to enable services in thesystemnow down here i'm basically creatingagain the user giving it a passwordmaking it member of thegroup this is useful if you're usingvirtual machine manager like in my caseand with the last line here basicallyi'm givingthe commands to give sudo privileges tothe user and at the end here i'm justtyping i'm just printing in a terminaltype exit you mount a and rebootactually you mount a shea is wrongbecause that's not the command i need tochange that as wellbut that's all there is to it here so ican just save this fileand i need to give now executepermission to the script search modplusxon base dot shi'm gonna go back here to the root filesystemand run it from there so dot slash archinstall base and base dot shso generating the locales asking me nowto confirm the packages and i'm going toaccept the packages here the defaultpackagesnow for the xdg desktop portal here i'mgoing to choose the third one becausei'm going to choose kde afterwards as adesktop environment in this case sonumber three is finei want to remove iptables because it'sin conflict with nftand proceed with the installation sothis is going to basically install thebase packages i usually useof course feel free to change them asneededand so this is going to take a moment toinstall so i'm going to pause the videohere guys and i'll be back with you onceit's doneso the packages are now installed andthere is still something we need to dohere which is a very important stepand that's to create our bootloader withthe encryption optionsso this is a little bit complex becausewe are using systemd boots and we areusing also encryption we need to put inthe options in there so just follow meand i'll try to make it as simple aspossible so let me clean up the terminalso to install system debut here we havenothing to install basically packagesare already therebecause it's systemdbut to install the bootloader we need totype in here boot ctlthen i'm going to define the path whichis dash dash pathequal to slash boot you remember this isthe directory we created for thebootloader and then just install verysimply and then hit enterso you can see there it created someentries and we need to basically editsome of these and create one so thefirst thing i want to do is to edit theloader.com file so to do this i'm goingto use vim again because it's my editorbut change this with your editor so vimslash bootslash loaderslash loader.conf this was created nowbecause we installed systemd boot andthen hit enterso i'm going to change here some ofthese options so for the timeout herei'm going to remove the hashtagand i'm going to say here timeout 5. sobasically it's going to timeout for 5seconds well actually because of thisvideo i'm going to do 10 seconds so ihave a little bit more time before themachine boots upand i'm going to type in here alsodefaultarchand that's all there is to it and then ican save this file and exit vim nowdefault arch means that the arch entryis going to be the default entry in thebootloader now the arched entry is notexisting yet we need to create that oneso we're gonna do this in the next stepso let's create now the arch entry bytyping in vimslash bootslash loader slash entriesand if i hit tab key here there isnothing in here so we need to createbasically the archdot conf entryso let's create now our entry so i forinsert mode in bimthe first thing is the titlethe title is going to be in my case archlinuxnext line is the linux we need to definebasically which kernel we want to bootso and that's the standard one which isvm linux with the setdash linuxin the next line we are going to alsodefine the init rd so init rdand that's our init ram fs so that'sgoing to be init ram fsdash linux dot img and hit enternow this is actually where we need todefine the encryption options so let'sbegin by typing in optionsand then crypt deviceequal uuidand then equal now we need to put inhere the uuidof the sda2 partition followed then bythe uuid in the next option of themapper partitionso where do we find these uuids wellwell we find them actually in theterminal but let's say for now this filewith colon x in my caseand let me clean up the terminal so theuu ids of the partitions you canactually find them out with the block idcommand for example so block idand let's saysda2so you can see the uuid in this caseit's this one right hereand if i type in here block id on slashdevmapper slash root which is our encrypteddeviceyou can see it has another uuid which isthis one right here so we need to putthese two informations in the arch.confconfiguration file for our bootloaderhow do we do this well that's fairlysimple we can pull up again the last twocommands hereso for the sda2 and we are going tobasically append this information toslash bootslash loader slash entries slasharch.confand hit enterand we are going to do the same thinghere for the mapper root so we are goingto basically append this information toslash boot slash loader slash entriesslash arch.confso now let's go back to theconfiguration file we pull up here acouple of commands so this is the onebim atbootloaderentriesarch.com and you cansee we have our options in there now weneed to clean up here some stuff becausewe have too much we don't needeverythingso the first one we need here is oursda2 partition not the encrypted one butthe partition itselfso i'm going to basically delete thisuuid hereuntil the uuid number and i'm going toput it here after uuid equaland i'm going to delete also the doublequotes hereand remove basically everything elsebecause i don't need anything else fromthe first partition herebut what i need after the uuid is todefine the colon root need to tell thisis the root partition you need to bootand then we can define the root is equalto uuidso the uuid of the encrypted deviceso equaland we're going to take the uuidof the encrypted device which is themapper root right hereso i'm going to basically remove all theinformation because the only thing ineed is the uuid itselfso let's put it here and let's go at theend of the yu id here remove the doublequotes and i'm going to removeeverything else because i don't actuallyneedany other information from the block idcommand here but what do i need todefine the root flagand that's equal to subwoolequal the at symbol or the roots ofvolume so basically the root flag is onthe sub volume which is equal to theroots of volume and then read and writeso these are the options i need forsystemd boot to work with encryptionwith butterfsso this is almost done let me save thisfile and exit themwe can also optionally create aconfiguration for fallback and to dothis it's very simple we can just typein here cp for copyon slash boot slash loaderslash entries slash arch.confand we're going to basically copy thename of this configuration and rename itso slash boot slash loader slash entryslasharch well is actually not arch.conf butit's going to bearch dash fallbackdot conf and then hit enterand we can basically change one optionin this fallback configuration so let'sedit it vimslash boot slash loader slash entriesslash arch dash fallback.confand the only option we need to changehere is the initramfsinstead ofinitromfs-linux it's going to beinitromfs-linux-fallback.imgand the rest is going to basically staythe same so we can now save this fileand exit bimand i think this is all there is to itso we can now type in exit and go backto the root arch isounmount our partitions by typing inumountdash rm tit's gonna take a moment to do thisand now i'm going to type in exit andpull up here the virtual machine becausei want to see the reboot with you guysso so just hang on a second here i'mgonna type in here exitand it's closing the connection via sshand i'm gonna close the terminal andpull up the virtual machineso let's see if everything worked out solet's type in here rebootso now take a moment to do thisso you can see here we have arch linuxfallback and arc linuxarch.conf and it was selected by defaultbecause we specified this to be thedefault option so we're going to boot upnow the machine but i'm going to definehere at the end of the line actually thevideo resolution just for the virtualmachine so that's going to be equal totwo five six zero pair one four fourand then i can hit enterso it should pick up my displayresolution you can see now it's askingus for the passphrase for our encryptionso let's enter thatand now we should be able to boot out upour machine just fine so you can see wehave a login prompt so i'm going to typein my username here and the passwordand now we are in our new installationso let's check first if we have an ip soip space aso you can see there i have an ip endingwith 157 and that's because i'mconnected via ethernet now if you have awi-fi connection you can type in nmtuito use the network manager terminal userinterfacego to activate a connectionyou will see a list of networks here youcan select yours you will be asked forthe passphrase and then you will have anip as wellthen once you have done that we can typein in here sudopacman dash syto synchronize our repositories we needto of course authenticateand you can see we can synchronize justfineso let's clean up the terminal andcontinue our installation so the firstthing i'm going to do is to install paruthe helper for the aur so to do this i'mgoing to type in git clonehttps colon slashaur dot arch linux dot orgslash paro dash pin so i'm going toinstall the binary because it's a littlebit quicker to installso it's going to clone the repositorynow we need to move into the directorywhich was just createdyou can see that i have power dash pinso cd power dash pinand to make the package we just type inmake pkg dash siso it's going to take a moment here tomake the binaryand then we can basically installpackages from the aur using paro andthis is now done so we can exit thedirectory hereand so the packages i want to installfrom the aur aretime shift because we are using thebutterfast file system and also timeshift auto snap so let's do this bytyping in parallel dash sso time shiftdash bin i'm going to install the binarybecause again it's a little quickerand also time shiftdash auto snapand i'm going to install also 0mdto create my zerum devices using thatstd compression and then i can just hitenterso it's going to take a moment here tomake the reviewand for the packages build is fineproceed with the installation of thedependenciesso it's going to take a moment here toinstall all the packages plus thedependencies and make the binaries soi'm going to pause the video here guysand i'll be back with you once this isdoneso the packages are now installed andthe next thing i need to do is to enablethe crm d now zmd comes with the systemdservice so it's fairly simple we justenable it by typing in sudo systemctlenable dash dash now zramd dot serviceand you can see now the sim link iscreated and if i type in lsb akwe have there our xeram device witheight gigabytes more or less eightgigabytes of swap now if you want tochange the options for the zmd you needto change the options in theconfiguration file which is under the sdirectory so you would type in sudo vimslash etsy slash default slash 0mdso you can see for example the maximumsize is going to be 8192 megabytes thisis only megabytes you can change alsothe algorithm here you can change thepriorities and also skip vm eventuallyso if you want to change these optionsthis is where you can change them so idon't need to do this i can just savethis file and exit bimand next we are going to install ourdesktop environment now remember we havethe arch installed base repository myprivate repository if you install thepublic repository it's going to be archinstalled baseso we need to copy this in our homedirectory here to do this we're going totype in cp-r to make it recursive so tocopy everything in thereslash arch install base replace thisagain with the repositories youdownloadedand the dot defines this currentdirectory we're going to copy it in ourhome directory hereso now again less dash lyou can see art install base is there solet's type in cdto go in thereand again ls-li'm going to use this time the kdescript since we want to install kde sovimkd.sh so here what i'm going to doactually i'm going to comment out alsothe reflector command because i doalready have the optimized mirror listso i don't need to re-synchronize herethe repository as well for the firewallports here i'm going to do thiseventually later i don't need to do thisright now it takes a little bit longerbut what i want to do i want to ofcourse install my packages here for kdeso we are installing xor stdm thedisplay manager kde applications andsome other applications and also somefonts that i need for my installationso spotify i don't need to install thatyet and enable stdm this is all there isto it here so we can save this file andexit vimand i need to give execute privileges tothe script search modeplus x on kd.shi'm going to go back here to the homedirectory and run it from there so dotslasharch install base and then kde dot shand this time i'm going to set all thedefaults againand again here the defaultsand i'm going to accept again thedefaults now this is going to take sometime to install so i'm going to pausethe video here and afterwards we'regoing to reboot the machineconfigure time shift and then it's goingto be done for the installation so i'llbe back with you guys in a momentso all the packages have now beeninstalled and you can see also thedisplay manager was enabled so we'regoing to reboot the machine so rebootso again our linux is the defaultconfiguration so i'm just going to hitenter hereand we need again to authenticatefor our encrypted partitionand if everything went well we should begreeted by sddmso there you go this is stdm so let metype in my password hereand welcome to the kde desktopsoyou can see we have now here our kdedesktopup and running i'm going to go tosettings here and go down to about thissystem you can see we are using archlinux here plasma version is 4 24 4 andwe're using an amd processorso the last thing here we are going todo is to configure time shiftso let me pull this upwe need to of course authenticateand we can set now this up now itdetects that we have butterfs so that'sfine we can click nextso this is the encrypted volume we haveso that's fine it's the one we havenow you can set here the schedule for methis is fine you can change it of courseaccordingly to your needsso q groups is already enabled that'sfine i'm going to leave this onand this is basically all there is to itso we can click finishand you can see here autosnap alreadycreated a snapshot when we installed thedesktop environment and that's becauseit was installed before we installed thedesktop environment so because webasically upgraded our system we updatedour system it created a snapshot but ican take one also right nowand you can see it takes it literally inlike one secondso what we did in this video weinstalled arch linux with the april 2022iso with encrypted battery fszram system d boot kde time shift andtime shift auto snap i hope you enjoyedthe video guys if you have any questionlet me know in the comments below andi'll try to answer you as soon as i canso there we go this was the monthlyinstallation of arch with the april 2022iso we covered a lot of stuff in here wecovered encrypted battery fs zram kdetime shift time shift auto snap systemdebuts and much more if you have anyquestion about the video let me know inthe comments below i will try to answeryou as soon as i can and i thank you somuch for watching the video guys if youhaven't subscribed yet please do so thathelps me a lotso i wish you a great day guys and i'llsee you very soon in the next video[Music]you