 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today I'm going to be showing you how to install arch Linux the easy way now This is not the easiest way if you want to go the easiest way you choose something like Endeavor OS or Menjaro or my personal favorite Arco Linux and then install it with a graphical installer All those I believe use the Calomari's installer and they're very easy to take 10 15 minutes But you're always left with something that's a derivative of arch if you do a neo fetch I'm menjaro. It's gonna say you're running menjaro linux. You same thing with Arco or Endeavor with the way I'm showing you today You're actually installing arch Linux and if you do a neo fetch in this you'll get it will actually say arch Linux So you can say I use arch Linux by the way so The is one caveat that I will say right up front if you're installing this on a laptop that does not have an ethernet jack I Can't help you with it. I have no clue how to get connected to the internet on arch Linux With what with Wi-Fi? I just don't know how to do it. I've never been successful the one place to arch wiki completely falls down in my opinion is Network connectivity is just I mean a convoluted mess and you can you can Google You know tutorials on how to do it and I still have never been able to figure it out. So if You're gonna do this make sure you're hooked up to a computer with wife or with an ethernet port. That's just the way Or be smarter than I am which is probably not that hard and You know be able to connect via Wi-Fi So I'm going to actually be doing this in a virtual machine Today and it should be fairly easy. It's just gonna use it be using a script. So let's go ahead and jump over to Virtual box here and we'll hit start And we'll see if we can make this full screen Okay Let's see if this actually is gonna work. I will put a link to what I'm going to be doing in the Video description so that you can follow along and copy and paste things as you need to And I'm also gonna try to make this text bigger And I was at least a little successful on that So if you need to make your font bigger to actually be able to see it you can run this command here set font ISO 0 1-12x 22.psfu.gz I Just googled that and it was in reddit somewhere. So I'm assuming that it's perfectly fine to run it when it worked So now the next thing what we want to do here is We need to set our Key our keyboard. So we want to do load key Okay, and then US okay now if that's if you're using the US if you're using like the You want to use the like a Spanish one you do? Yes, if you want to use UK, I believe you just use UK I'm gonna use the US one Yeah, it should be load keys. I'm sorry load keys not load key Okay, and that's gonna have no output at all unless you've made a mistake like I did Just make sure you actually type things correctly. Like I said the instructions for all this stuff will be in the video description It'll be very easy. There's also Instructions there on how to connect via Wi-Fi. I'm still not sure how to do it It doesn't make any sense to me. So what we're going to do next is We need to download the script. We're going to be using so we're gonna be typing curl dash s Small s capital L and then HTTPS colon batch just black back. I can't say backslash back sat Backslash backslash, there we go That's lost it and then bit.ly bit.ly.ly. There is a longer URL that you could type in if you wanted to It's the exact same thing. This is just easier and what do slash to F3 Actually, make sure I type this right to F3 C a t P and then pipe bash And that will download something here for just a second. This is the script that we're going to be using So the next thing we're gonna want to do is them into Al is that co nf. Okay, so this is the arch Linux installer configuration file and It's going to have a ton of stuff that you're going to have to change so Down here where it says keys. We want to want to change this to us Change word us. Okay. We can leave log as false Okay, and then we'll just scroll down here Now here's where this is gonna be a little bit different. So the next thing you want to do is tell arch Linux Where you want it to be installed? I'm not actually sure What the partition is or the drive name is on? Virtual box, so I'm gonna have to go to a different Mmm I'm actually have to quit out of this and do this real quick. I have to go back and find out So I'm just gonna quit out of this and do LS BLK and We need to make sure that we're on the right one and it's SR zero is What we're looking at? Actually, it's SDA SDA is the right one. Okay So we'll just go back up to the one we were just in And we need to go up here make sure we change this back because we didn't save change word us Get back out of insert mode. So you don't make any mistakes And then a lot of these ones here you're going to have multiple options the explanation X Exclamation point. I'm having the hardest time with words and punctuation. I don't know what's going on You can either just leave these or you can delete them. I'm going to go ahead and delete them and then I Deleted the wrong one Okay, and then you let us this stuff here is basically you just leave it the same you want You can choose the file system type I'm going to go ahead and leave it as EXT for because it works best in virtual box On my system, I chose butter FS when I tried this out and it worked just fine Same thing with the next thing you want to do is choose your swap size You can leave this all you can leave this exact Just the way it is and you won't end up having a swap at all I'm going to go ahead and use the 2048. So just delete the exclamation point and then delete the rest Okay, prediction size you want to leave this as auto I'm just going to go ahead and delete these other ones. You don't have to delete these They should it should work if you don't delete them. I'm just doing it because You know a little bit you know retentive about stuff The rest of the stuff here we can just leave the way it is Okay, we can scroll down now This network install thing here is if you had had Wi-Fi again, I Don't know how that works. So if you have Wi-Fi, you're just gonna have to read the directions here and hope hope for the best We're gonna scroll down here we want to We want to change this reflector hit thing part here to true oops and basically what this is going to do is Use the reflector software to choose the best mirrors for you. Okay? And then you can just change this one here to your country United States okay, and Next one you want to change here is choose the kernel that you want to use so I'm going to use the LTS kernel So we'll delete this part and we'll delete the headers Okay, and the next thing here. This is going to be one that you want to change. I believe and I want I've always been changing it to this G zip here and then Deleting the rest of these because I know G zip works Now Arch Linux just did change to something else by default. I'm pretty sure they changed to Z G zip by default, but I might be misremembering that so the next thing we want to want to do is choose the driver that we want to install for our graphics and this one here is Interesting because I'm not actually sure Which one to choose for virtual box Obviously, we don't need Nvidia and I believe what we wanted to do is just do all this a blank because I think it'll be perfectly fine for Virtual box it for you depending on what graphics card you have in your computer You'll either want the Intel one the AMD GPU or that one of the Nvidia ones Again, that's going to be something that's gonna depend on what card you have in your computer rest of this stuff here I believe we leave exactly the same which we do Okay, keep keep scrolling now. Here's where some of the this is where you're gonna be changing your languages So and you're setting your time zone. So I know I'm I'm gonna change this word here to America and Change this word here to Detroit Okay, and then I'm going to delete This first one here in locales because I don't need this I don't I don't need Spanish and I just need us dash utf-8 Okay, and then the same thing here. I'm gonna delete the languages of Spanish and just use The English one, okay, and same thing with a key map. We need to change this to us Okay, and the key Mac layout to Us Okay, and then you change the name of your computer by this host name here And I'm just gonna leave it as arcs Linux, but you can change it to whatever you want and then you can put your Password here now if you leave it asked, I believe it will ask you to set it up once you've you know rebooted but I'm just gonna type in the password and TLC Phil, you know, just this is not the password and it would normally use obviously But it works. Okay. Now you want to create a user. So I'm going to Create my user doctor mdub oops and TLC All right, and you can actually create other users by doing, you know Following these directions here. Okay, and then this part here stays all the same Scrolling down this part here stays the same unless you there's something you know for sure you need to change All right, and here's the here's an important part the bootloader you want to change this to grub because by default they have it as system D I Tried that because it's you know what they have it as default, but it did not work So you need to uncomment grub and Delete the other ones Okay, and then here you can choose your your default Shell so I'm just gonna leave that as bash and here's where you're gonna want to choose the Desktop environment you have that you you'll have upon reboot Now you can leave these all commented and that means you could go through and install your own afterwards You'd be prevented presented with the TTY after reboot. I'm just gonna go ahead and uncomment XFCE Okay, that way I should have an XFCE desktop on reboot This package is to install leave that blank and install your packages afterwards I don't know if I'm actually gonna need that vagrant part. I'm not actually sure and we're gonna see if this works and We want reboot just to be set to true. Okay, so that's it Now what we do and need to do is colon right quit colon wq and The next thing we're going to want to do is actually run that so do dot slash AI AL IS dot SH And we'll see if this works you just gonna ask you if you want sure you want to partition your drives. Yes We'll see if this works it's going to go through Again, you're not if you weren't successful in connecting to the internet So if you're not connected via Ethernet cable This would not work because this isn't a net installer, which means you have to be connected internet. It's downloading stuff Like I said, I'm not I've never been once been successful and getting connected to the Wi-Fi with arch Linux That's a me problem For sure. I'm just too stupid to figure out how to do it I'm sure like I said, there's probably tutorials out there that could probably help me to do so. I've just not been interested in doing it And I will cut away after this is done and come back that we don't see here through this whole process Okay, once you get to this point here, it's gonna try to reboot. It may or may not be successful We'll see if it is it did not abort it did not reboot on its own It just you know Sometimes it fails and I'm actually okay with that because I actually would like to do a shutdown So I can remove because you don't want to make sure you remove the installation media And I'm gonna have to do that in virtual box. So I'm just gonna pseudo shut down now Okay, and then I will go through and remove the installation media Now I'm going to just restart up and We should be loading into arch Linux here if everything went right And it did look at this TLC All right, and we should be able to going into and we are not good arch Linux. So if we open up a terminal here and Zoom in pseudo pac-man dash capital S neo fetch yes clear neofetch Arch Linux Bada BAM Bada Boom. Do these people still say that Bada BAM, but I Don't think they still say that and what's out of the 90s. What do you can you say? Anyways? That's how you install arch Linux the easy way it was really simple you just go through that configuration file Fill out some things make sure you change that last one from system B to grub and you won't have any problems Now if you're on certain systems This uses light DM as a login manager I Had problems with light DM and had to switch to SDDM And that's not a problem with this script specifically. It's a problem with arch Linux and SN light DM It's really weird because it happens on across distributions because it happened in Arco. It also happened in Jarrow so if You end up rebooting and going to like a black screen Change to SDDM. You'll be happier and it will work. So that's arch Linux I mean literally it was that simple now. Like I said, I apologize for the lack of Wi-Fi information Maybe someday I'll get that figured out and make a video about it. I Just can't get my can't wrap my head around it. There's Terminology there that I don't understand just can't get through my little mind anyways Let's jump into social shall we make sure you follow us on Twitter at Twitter comm slash Linux cast Facebook comm slash Linux cast You can also support us on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast starting in mid-March everyone Who is a tier 2 or tier 3 patron will get early access to all of our videos? 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