Arch Linux Installation Guide 2024: An Easy to Follow Tutorial

[@toxeia]

Great timing. I've been planning to install Arch and wanted to go through the full manual process, very grateful for this tutorial.

[@__Mr.White__]

Yea. I didn’t even know there was this menu interface. 👍

[@eddie_m_m]

By far the clearest and most straightforward manual install of Arch that I've seen. Very high quality content.

[@Dubiouscyclist]

Used the manual method and it worked like a charm. Excellent, clear and concise instructions, no bs. Thanks Jay!

[@ilkerylmaz]

When I first installed Arch Linux, I installed it thanks to your video. thank you.

[@Alucard.c]

Usta ben direkt installarch komutuyla kurdumda çok alakasız bir şey kurdu ya, Masaüstü olmayan saçma sapan bi dağıtım kurdu.

[@ilkerylmaz]

@@Alucard.c ben bu kanaldaki uzun video ile kurdum. Archinstall ile kurmuyordu, her seyi manuel kendisi kuruyor. En son da masaustu ortamini kuruyor

[@Alucard.c]

@@ilkerylmaz ustam ben arada sırada siber işleriyle uğraşıyorum, linux u tam olarak ne için kullanıyoruz? ben genelde her işimi windowsda hallediyorum. Toollar cart curt var diye kali kullanıyordum, geçen arch linux'u pirinçleyen(rice) birini gördüm çok hoşuma gitti. gerekli toolları buna da kurarım diye denedim de. Çok saçma bir şey kurdu

[@arkakar708]

I'm daily driving arch since 2020 and it hasn't been possible without your old videos about arch installation and setup videos. Learned lots of topics from your videos like syncthing, ssh, proxmox and more... ❤❤❤

[@TheMCFisk]

I'm so in love with arch that I'm watching an install tutorial just for the love of the game

[@pikachusolu1606]

gl playing video games on linux lol and fixing bugs

[@Blue-Scorpion]

@@pikachusolu1606 i play games on linux every day without any problems. Steam games works great.

[@savagehalt1555]

@@pikachusolu1606 on linux because we're past the age of playing video games, kid

[@browniesbigdawgz]

I'm installing arch because I like messing with computers and fixing the bugs@@pikachusolu1606

[@staarg-d5s]

uhm actually you can play games.​@@pikachusolu1606

[@stingfiretube]

A couple points were missed in this video: 1. swap file/ partition was not created (needed to support RAM and hibernation) 2. os-prober was not enabled in grub config for dual-booting PCs.

[@Got_It_From_Ebay]

I'm walking through this at the moment, and had questions about swap. How should I do this? Just create another partition with my desired swap size and flag it as type swap in fdisk?

[@SuddenlyAmnesia]

@@Got_It_From_Ebay yup, just create a partition with desired space, I usually then just format it with "mkswap /dev/partition" and right after "swapon /dev/partition"

[@ethanalvarez-xf3ws]

is that not cover in 54:00 ?

[@toxeia]

@@ethanalvarez-xf3ws The ram disk in this scenario is more like an environment that gets loaded in order to launch the rest of your system. Swap space in linux is more like a pagefile in Windows, it's used to juggle memory allocation when necessary - and as non-volatile (sleep) memory.

[@sanskarkumar464]

@@toxeia Damn, you know a lot about this. Respect.

[@gridleaf]

Thanks for updating the title of the old video. I was just about to refer back to it, and wouldn't have known there's a new version otherwise.

[@EliasRodriguez-cc3mp]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH IT TOOK ME 17 HOURS OF PURE WORK TO GET THE SYSTEM RUNNING AND NOW THANKS TO YOU IT FINALLY WORKS!

[@saturn5312]

17? jesus

[@Gigachad-mc5qz]

​@@saturn5312ha thats nothing. It was 2 days for me and still not working

[@instcofelovr4]

LITERALLY HAD 0 ISSUES WITH MANUAL INSTALL! THANK YOU SM!

[@commandbaker3334]

I'm glad he mentioned Ventoy because I think it's better than clearing and formatting a flash drive to have one use (to install Arch). You can have all the ISOs you want on one drive and the plugins allow you to add different things to it!

[@Helpsmallbusinesses]

at 54:19 to save the file press Ctrl + O (not zero). You'll be prompted to confirm the file name. Press Enter to save. Then press Ctrl + X to exit.

[@mexicano1891]

Thank you, i almost got stuck on it

[@LT-M8]

I recommend also installing the "xorg-server" package, because it fixed the boot process getting stuck after decrypting the drive. For added context, I run an Nvidia GPU and got this error on June 5, 2024.

[@nastenkaoo]

I use Arch, btw❤

[@Creativesucks]

He said the thing!

[@nicolasdesenvolvedor1642]

I use Arch, BTW Too!

[@setoman1]

I run Qubes, btw 🤓

[@tomv3999]

I use it .... but for my real work, I run FreeBSD. 🤓

[@Nivek389]

@@setoman1I shave me pubes, btw

[@tacocat464]

I believe more people need to watch this video because I have spent very long trying to figure out how to get this to work and every time something wasn't working I found out I didn't follow what you said. Thank you very much

[@adamk.7177]

I've been using mostly Arch for a month now due to this video. Thanks Jay!

[@cherubin7th]

Don't use double quotes for the network name if you get errors, because they don't like some symbols in the name, single quotes worked.

[@IggyBoi]

I'd like to add this, since it's something I came across and, hopefully, if someone comes across this issue, it may help someone out, even if it's buried under older comments. 58:48 - if you are receiving outputs of "EFI variables are not supported on this system," followed by one output of "grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry," it is because your computer is not in UEFI mode. You must switch that somewhere in your BIOS menu and, since all BIOS are different, I can't really provide a universal guide to changing the mode. But, one way to quickly verify to see if your computer is currently in UEFI mode is to try this command: "ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars". If it is not found, your system is in BIOS mode instead of UEFI. If it is found, there may be something else entirely. For me, that was the reason why I couldn't continue beyond this point and simply went with the automatic installation, but it was a learning experience, nonetheless.

[@dozicusmaximus]

Thanks. I was wondering what the hell was going on.

[@IggyBoi]

@@dozicusmaximus Glad it was able to guide ya. Good luck, bud

[@nonamehere4245]

Thanks for the video. I followed along and installed Arch on a flash drive. it worked a little differently because it was a flash drive but it wasn't too far off.

[@Nneoh1]

Which I could upvote this more than once, amazing guide. Thank you!

[@xila8861]

Man , I didn't know there was a manual. You're the best linux teacher I have seen on yourube btw. Thank you.

[@A_Random_Guy655]

There's the arch wiki, which is an alternative manual to installing arch linux. But if you prefer a well explained video, you sure can do that!

[@ramonr.559]

Jay, excellent job as always, thanks for the update, we just need a post-installation to complete.

[@willblanc131]

Really great tutorial! Arch was my last resort for my gt 730 (fermi) since debian didn't work with it and you helped me install arch without having to watch 5 times.

[@MichaelGisbers]

There is also a Arch Linux live distribution with desktop. It is called "Nepu Linux" and is build and maintained by eworm, one of the core Arch Linux developers. When your hardware runs within Nepu Linux, it will with a basic Arch Linux installation.

[@lettuceprayamen]

I use Arch now, btw. Thank you. I tried installing before but got stuck on invoking wifi but thanks to your clear explanation I have Arch up and running.

[@Ilsh1964]

Jay, Wonderful tutorial (as usual) !!! My two remarks are: 1. you forgot to define a swap partition 2. Edit /etc/locale.conf and declare LANG=en_US.UTF-8 This prevent gnome language problem

[@MarkRodriguez-l4m]

How u do swap part and is it needed?

[@EXTRAEDC]

This is literally the first arch install tutorial that i followed with no errors during installation 😊

[@briansalehi]

Setting up Arch is getting easier day by day. I don't see any reason to hear Arch is for advanced users anymore. Arch is for everyone!

[@seanhauth1683]

You also have arch based distributions like endeavor and garuda that are simple enough to setup and use. I do agree that it is getting easier to install arch nowadays which i am thankful for

[@Cgrevox]

The only problem i had Is that on my second device It would not recognize Networks . I did all like the tutorials. Nothing. Idk why. But in my 1st device everything runs smoothly

[@seanhauth1683]

@GrevoxYT yeah, I need to go back and install arch again since my problem was I forgot to set superuser and root access for myself so can't do anything without it 🙃 😅

[@KiyopakaOfficial]

Yah, I absolutely agree with you. I never use linux but I started from arch. I never regret my choice

[@daroniousmaximus]

Installing it on a laptop. I had used arch many years ago using the old method. Used the simple method this time. Easy peasy!

[@CyberCode-s6j]

I accidentally typed a capital letter in my username and that manual installation got wasted, but learned a lot. Thank you very much sir. Now I am installing via archinstaller.

[@andrewbig9806]

I swear I love this guy. Always positive to help us noobs. Great guy no doubt.

[@MarkRodriguez-l4m]

new people if you have a lot of disk space, make sure you partition more than 30gb like he shows for root. I did 800GB since I have a huge space. great tutorial subbed

[@Goofie_Dragon]

should i partition the root or the home volume more ??

[@dono42]

I ran into an NTP issue where archinstall hangs indefinitely. This is documented as issue #2144 and has workarounds. This was caused primarily due to restrictions on LAN restrictions and an external firewall which could not easily be adjusted in a timely manner. The workaround was to manually define /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf to use the internal NTP servers, restart systemd-timesyncd, and then restart archinstall. There is also a "--skip-ntp" command line option you can pass to archinstall, though I have not tested it.

[@bembjaminbrosenglek1163]

Thank you so much. This eas a daunting task as a newbie and you made it simple.

[@pratikkulkarni891]

I was following your Arch video you had put in 2021 just TODAY and installed it a few hours back! Will check this one out to see if there's anything else I can do

[@umbracus]

For me it was like two days ago, kind of regret it now

[@Paras-ot2qo]

why ?@@umbracus

[@jadeia.]

Thanks - a very approachable tutorial for Arch Linux and the archinstall script makes it so easy.

[@aRandomPerson...]

Remember, for maximum security, set the root password to "root"

[@UnbreakableMJ0]

This is a solid joke for those who weren't sure 😅 You never use such passwords that are easy to guess. Keep yourself and your family safe.

[@fish7828]

Stupidly easy to crack password, gotta use something hard to guess with no words and lots of inconsistency. For example, I use 1p23$aAAa for my KZbin password

[@onça_pintuda999]

I'm new into arch and dont remember to set a root password for ubuntu, in what situations this root and password are used? because I can easily lost that generated password and fuck up when I need it, be it seemed to me that its not that used

[@wmckenzz]

I love your content. I'm having so much fun learning linux

[@huynhkhaphi9191]

Very nice. He spent about 1 hour just for details in installation process and explanations. Thanks.

[@9-ac-7]

Huge thanks to the creator of the video, the guide was the simplest thing ever and it helped me revive a bunch of old laptops

[@SiilverEdit]

thank you so much i have faced huge issues with the 2021 installation method you are the best

[@rodrigoaedo-zz3wg]

I loved your channel, you explain all the content very well, you make a great contribution to the community that enjoys learning about this beautiful distribution, greetings from Chile

[@antonioquintero-felizzola5334]

BEST LINUX CHANNEL IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. PERIOD.

[@equu497]

Wow that archinstall script is the smoothest experience ever! Thank you for the video! Definitely helped demystify the process!

[@DefCantGame]

If you are installing kde you may have to run sudo -Sy archinstall, believe the archinstall script that is downloadable still has a weird issue with the plasma-wayland packaging

[@aljimsonmegrino9580]

Been trying in virtual box if it works and it f***ing works. Will install it in my own laptop one of these days. Thank you!

[@realKushy17]

Hey Jay, i want to send you my appreciation for your hard work. You've helped me tremendously! Your work is truly a gem for those of us learning how to be proficient on the Linux side of computer science.

[@JohnDoe-vh4ec]

thanks, thats a really great guide especially for newbies like me

[@stevenpauly8319]

In my opinion, the video should have more closely followed the Arch wiki section on pacstrap and pacman package installation. For example, the wiki suggests pacstrapping the base and linux packages. Then chroot in to install the rest using pacman. While the video way works, there is value in following the wiki closer. Thanks.

[@theexile4694]

22:30 - You forgot the post install chroot stuff. You can't just reboot after this, it doesn't let you. Chroot says running in chroot ignoring request. You have no Desktop Environment GUI, just a command prompt with no information as to what it wants form you after that.

[@theexile4694]

So to get around this... Just type exit, enter, and sudo reboot. gg wp.

[@shiisanjit3682]

How do I do that?

[@xandrexgaming]

Just type exit in chroot ​@@shiisanjit3682

[@yassinebelmamoun9727]

Excellent job! Thank you for this level of quality 👏

[@TheDecodedMatter]

Linux is NOICE !! It's my 2nd installation today both done side by side your instructions. I messed the first time, part due to lack of sleep, part due to panick because of realising I'm gonna lose my entire data on my PC and part due to hurry leaving Microsoft Windows [~10 years of my OS].

[@tomv3999]

I screwed up the first time (back when I was using his older tutorial). No biggie (I expected to blow stuff up) ... just started over. He does good tutorials.

[@Mr3X7R3M3]

Been subscribed for a while now, and somehow I missed this one lol Another great video! Keep it up Tried the archinstall first and it worked without any issues. Just for fun, I then did the manual install and changed my DE packages. I have no idea if the system is running better/worse now, but I do know that I feel much more accomplished having customized my system for me

[@DV-ml4fm]

Best arch linux guide ever!

[@davelongdev]

These tutorials are great. Thanks so much for making all this content.

[@netrodex]

I don't even plan to use Linux, but it's fascinating watching this hard process... kudos!

[@Talking__Ben]

One thing I learned from this video: archinstall allows you to add a desktop environment.

[@linuxvswindows40]

For newer laptop models, don’t use quotes with the passphrase for your WiFi connection. I figured out that on some newer devices like my Acer Nitro 5, if you use quotes it will say dquote> and you’ll have to retype what you typed.

[@Mido-qr6bw]

Thank you for this tutorial. It’s really make the whole process less scary for a Linux newbie like me 😅

[@SumRevanced]

Best ever guide to installation of arch linux Love it❤

[@BertyPlayGames]

Followed everything went smoothly 💯💯

[@Berat-e8h]

i liked this man, looks and talks cool, also does things with cool os!

[@pentasquare]

Instructions unclear, accidentally installed gentoo

[@AbdoMohammed-jt5ye]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Alexa_mapping]

you would’ve spent 5 days installing it then

[@arcusredden]

I wish the other video / blogpost was not taken down for the info it had especially about non uefi systems

[@xwinglover]

Jay is of the go to channels on YT for Linux.

[@cootason]

Excellent guide mate. I love messing around in linux. While following along I did ext4 but may dabble with btrs for timeshift on the final version. Thanks for the helpful guide. So used to the gui versions

[@underflowexception]

installing arch by hand was fun the first few times but now I just use endeavors as it's much quicker

[@SnorreSelmer]

I love Arch, ran it for a long time, but now I’m using Manjaro for the same reason. The manual install is cool, but I’m now old enough to not care about “bragging rights”, I just want something that works. :D

[@shugyosha7924]

Nice video. I heard installing Arch was supposed to be difficult but the video makes it look straightforward.

[@praenoto]

I got an error about EFI variables not supported even though I'm in UEFI mode. added --removable to 58:46 to tell it I was using a removable drive and then it worked

[@justhp7306]

BRO UR MY SAVIOR. GOD BLESS YOU AND UR FAMILY! TYSM IT WORKED FOR ME!!

[@bill-nye-the-lemon-lime]

Boost, you're doing good work here my friend

[@ZachLindgren]

The goat

[@arifsoylu]

that bro saved my hours.

[@bluepsicosis2624]

thanks bro i was sweating cold at this point

[@eldeefitty4473]

Amazing, you can set sudo privs for users as you create the user, how nice

[@MeowtronStar]

Help! In the manual method, the grub-install step gave me an error "no EFI directory found". I double checked everything and confirmed the mount points. Then searched the internet and added another argument: --efi-directory=/boot/EFI This installed grub. But grub is not detecting Arch Linux.

[@lorensims4846]

I prefer to use cfdisk rather than fdisk because it's a lot easier to see what's going on. Is cfdisk not available?

[@tanmaysingh1916]

It is available, actually. I happened to stumble upon it while watching mental outlaw's old arch install video, and it is just so much more convenient. It's weird how most youtubers don't seem to mention it...

[@tomv3999]

I used your older tutorial to install Arch on my laptop. My only (very minor) regret is using LVM, but it has not actually caused problems (I just think I didn't need it). I am building a new machine (total beast; 512G RAM, RADEON 7900XTX, etc). I will either do EndeavorOS or follow your tutorial here.

[@yellowked]

This video is awesome, thank you very much for explaining everything you do

[@isaiahplummer1040]

I just finished my first real pc build. The timing of this video is impeccable. (Yes I’ve used arch on laptops before but it’s just not the same)

[@SecretAgentBartFargo]

The process of installing Arch on a desktop or laptop is the same. The only thing that differs is the linux-firmware modules that are getting loaded. Other than that, same.

[@zenzilla94]

Thanks for the video mate! Ive got about a year experience with linux and could not install successfully following the wiki…

[@emanuellandeholm5657]

Your guide inspired me to finally take a serious stab at installing Arch on my desktop! I already triple boot Windows, Arch and Ubuntu on my laptop, and I'm happy to say that I've now managed to crack the code on my desktop too. I had previously tried several times to install Arch from a chroot in my Ubuntu system, but I just couldn't make it work. I had to struggle quite a bit with BIOS, grub, efi and stuff like that to make everything behave like I wanted it to. Arch now owns the MBR on sda, and everything will be OK unless Windows somehow manages to mess things up. The Ubuntu OS I had originally planned to use as a dev environment, but now that I've Arch up and running I'm moving all my code there. Development is just so much nicer when you have access to the bleeding edge stuff. Ubuntu is now basically there to function as a nice environment to boot into for chroot if I mess up my Arch system.

[@rimaq_]

Jay you are my fav but I'm gonna resent you a little bit because you uploaded this right after I already installed arch hahaha. Great video as always tho

[@solidwire]

Always awesome instruction. I was disappointed with not explaining the manual install. If all anyone is doing is blindly following then they'd probably be better off with the "scripted installation" is it ArchInstall. Maybe, next time you refresh the Arch install video kindly consider a full explanation on the manual method. Thanks again for the caring & quality content.

[@Pumoneon]

He does explain the manual install

[@meh.7539]

Thank you. I tried following the installation guide and... I don't want to say it's 'bad' but it was *definitely* not written for me.

[@peterjanbo657]

Sweet. I just installed it today. Will look to see what I can learn. 😊

[@Monkeysnakes]

You are the coldest man on KZbin dude.

[@PlagueDoctor-ow2zt]

This is amazing! Can you do a guide on how to install KDE with btrfs through Arch?

[@hadeseye2297]

42:31 [Enters rage mode and does facepalm] Et cetera. Uuuuugh! Anyway. Thanks for this video. Somethings had to be done differently in my case, as I was doing dual boot with winblowzer already installed on the disk (57:16 uncomment last line : GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false), and using a good graphical environment instead of overbloated, RAM consuming and pixelwasting Gnome ( i3 ;) - you don't install Arch to use layman's DE "I use Arch!" ). Good you added lvm. This video is good even for that part itself. The weirdest thing with Arch is that it doesn't have less by default.

[@Not_SatoruGojo]

If you are going to install it to legacy BIOS (not UEFI) system, you need to make this things different: 1. in fdisk boot partition should be regular linux partition (code 83) 2. tag it as a bootable partition with "a" command in fdisk 3. format it into ext4 (instead of FAT) with mkfs.ext4 , also mount it to /mnt/boot after mounting root partition 4. when generating grub config your target should be different: --target=i386-pc Also creating dedicated NVM partition for /home is not mandatory, you can just create /root partition for entire system. And if you prefer KDE Plasma over gnome, please make sure you installing it as your user (not as root). To do so make sure you can use sudo as your user and run "su your_user", then install kde

[@flyingdinosaur8871]

Hm…..

[@aaronstark9189]

Left hanging at "Would you like to chroot into the newly created installation and perform post-installation configuration?" ?

[@christophmahler]

During the manual installation I didn't get the reasoning behind the second partition... The 'Carbon' laptop features an UEFI board which is booted via the first partition. So outlines the Arch WIKI UEFI partition schemes as well (EFI system and e.g. '/')... Have I missed a part that explains the additional boot partition, e.g. in relation to the logical volume management ?... The latter a welcome suggestion to achieve full device encryption with optional hibernation.

[@MyReviews_karkan]

How come Gentoo hardly ever gets any love on this channel? I'd definitely appreciate a guide on installing it someday.

[@carlosjesuscaro8274]

Excellent video, thanks!

[@Wreckeem]

I love you. Subscribed. Saved. Shared.

[@strepeherbata]

I mean... I have been blinding myself, staring at the archwiki, trying to figure out how to install arch and haven't ever seen the third of the commands you have presented here in this video. How do you guys learn it? How do you read the wiki? I am a total noob and now I feel really dumb because of a missed day of my time..

[@jeffmcclure888]

What an awesome tutorial!

[@JW-jd6sn]

This might sound silly, but when the script installer finishes, make sure you acc type 'reboot' and not hit the reboot button physically on your desktop or you will corrupt the install

[@woolfy02]

I installed Manjaro on my X1 Carbon as, Ubuntu 24.04 was a nightmare to try to get working (From the first boot, the fan was stuck on full speed all the time). No matter what I tried, I couldn't get it fixed. Before that, Windows 11 wasn't much better as, the fan would kick on if I just had a few browser tabs open! lol. Constantly hearing the fan rev up and slow down got annoying! Anyways, once I got Manjaro installed, and I noticed I could use Firefox and my fan NEVER went on. I thought for a minute maybe it wasn't configured correctly but, it was! Idk why windows 11 struggles that much but, I'm happy I switched because my laptop barely even gets warm now on the bottom of it. Besides that, everything seems to work pretty good. (I do get this weird 'pop' sound from my audio every few seconds though) I'm going to try the guided archinstall script from the video and, do a clean install. (Hope everything runs as good as Manjaro afterwards). Maybe one day, I'll give the full install a try. Anyways, thanks for making a great, detailed video on it!

[@woolfy02]

Well I ended up installing stock Arch KDE with this guide and, it was fairly easy! In Manjaro I noticed I had something I couldn't get working. ('pinch to zoom)With the base Arch install, it magically worked with no setup at all! Everything else is working great as well.

[@uncertaindeathpig8023]

I have grown to love Garuda Linux but I’m thinking about Give official Arch a try. Just because.

[@abhimn]

Will I be achieving same result via both methods? If yes then archinstall was good enough

[@niky2989]

Really excellent guide Jay! Wanted to install arch again so this was perfect! But maybe I missed it but, what audio drivers are installed here? If I want Pipewire do I need to install it after? Thanks and keep it up!

[@Whizard72]

Nice thing about arch is it only installs what you ask for and nothing else.

[@SnorreSelmer]

Great video! And the next video “writes itself”! I had a look at enabling SecureBoot on Arch, and then my eyes glazed over and my brain started overheating… Would you do a video on that next?

[@richmdr]

After the installation, I am getting greeted by the bios - any ideas ?

[@blz777]

Thanks!