Arch Linux Monthly Install: March 2022

In this monthly install of Arch Linux, I am going to install it with the BTRFS file system, ZRAM, KDE and Timeshift.
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My Hardware:
AMD Ryzen 9
32 GB RAM
Sapphire RX 5700 XT
My software:
Distro: Arch Linux
Video editing software: Kdenlive
Website: eflinux.com
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[@sidicleisebastiao9255]

Very good Ermanno, congratulations! Be strong, everything will pass, everything will be fine... Greetings from Limoeiro-PE, Brazil!

[@RobbieJacobs_Talks]

WOW!!!!! I was about to start reading about BTRFS and time shift because i wanted it as an arch install. Swap out KDE to XCFE and this would be spot on!

[@Appalling68]

Great to see a new video, Ermanno!

[@590af]

Thank you so much, Ermanno, for all of your videos! They are super high quality, straight to the point, good pace, and very informative :)

[@autonaut279]

wax on, wax off. one month at a time. thank you so much for your time! enjoy your family, so many of us have taken for granted how quickly things can be taken from us.

[@ThatKermitGuy]

Your amazing content is great enough for you to take a well deserved break - see you soon!

[@myfavouritecolorisgreen]

thank you for monthly arch install videos. commenting for the algorithm.

[@cristian_palau]

Thank you for your great work!!!

[@jashaswimalyaacharjee9585]

Ermanno turning into luke smith with the Vlog in forest among trees!

[@LuneLovehearn]

Again thanks for teaching me how to do Arch. I need to research more on BTRFS as I heard that it is best suited for SSD when compared to ext4

[@anmol3457]

thank you so much, this is a massive help

[@KelikakuCoutin]

Subscribed. What a nerd. If they held a nerd contest right as you were doing this video, you'd win the grand prize. My head started to explode about ten minutes into the video. Thanks for the content. Keep up the good work. בס'ד

[@nightwolf1966]

Thank you very much for your hard work making you great videos, I enjoy them greatly . Have a great day

[@TheNebo19]

Great video!!!

[@LuneLovehearn]

as always, thanks Ermanno for teaching is the wonders of Arch. stay strong! War is an obsolete package dependency that should be removed from the world OS.

[@aer0449]

Hello sir, Please take care and as always stay awesome 😄

[@romandari3842]

Thank you so much,, i learned alot of things from your videos. I have a wish, can you make a video for most essential and important packages for getting any distro works good?

[@ricardo072]

Very good Ermanno, I noticed you did not create subvolume for /mnt/var -- is there any reason of performance or something else? any advantage or disadvantage of doing this way compared to your previous videos?

[@peter2485]

Thank you yet again for a very well structured tutorial. Is it possible that for the installation that you could do it on a nvme instead of a ssd?

[@katech6020]

both are SSDs, I think you mean NVME instead of SATA SSD. for that the only difference will be the device location /dev/nvmeX instead of /dev/sdX (X represent the number of the drive)

[@float7976]

thank you

[@tuxdebianzac9948]

Grazie per i tuoi video , nonostante siano in lingua inglese sono perfettamente comprensibili , anche se incrementi la dimensione dei caratteri a volte , guardando i tutorial dal cellulare , faccio fatica a leggere. Ma è un mio problema 😂.

[@lucaprezzo]

take your time, live your family, enjoy my country We wait for you

[@zacharybaker6737]

Thank you so much! Quick issue, when I exit and reboot I am not met with the grub dual boot loader. Any ideas as to why?

[@antoniotomeo4590]

Ciao Ermanno, adoro i tuoi video e dopo essermi documentato, ho deciso di provare a droppare Windows e provare finalmente Arch per la prima volta! Ho guardato tutto il video, e mi sono perso nella parte dove devo usare il tuo script. Anche io voglio usare kde, ma con Wayland e Pipewire. Potresti darmi qualche informazione in più su come fare? Nel PC ho un 12900k ed una 3070! Grazie mille se risponderai! Keep Up the Good Work!

[@Appalling68]

Hello again, Ermanno. I finally got around to following your tutorial in my VM and noticed the following error upon executing the "base" script: "Line 5 SED command not found." So I exited the chroot, went back to the point of pacstrap and added the "base-devel" package to include the SED command. Now it works.

[@eflinux]

Odd, that should be included in the base package. I'll have to check if they changed that.

[@Appalling68]

@@eflinux That’s what I thought as well. Perplexing.

[@Expirio]

Hey man, love your videos. I keep on getting an error 503 code when I try to clone the gitlab repository. I looked it up and it said that 503 said that a server might be down for maintenance. If this is correct, could you tell me when it will be back up (only if you know)?

[@ikyyntts7807]

hey ermanno, keep up the good work. i just have one problem after launching it. every single time ive launched it and followed exactly what you did, my screen is just completely black, no login of anything, if it helps, i put nvidia in my mkinitcpio and i have 2 monitors if i should disconnect one, do you know how i can fix this? thanks

[@pietjespappie]

Are you using the default zram file? I installed zram some time ago and thought I had to alter the file. And so I did..

[@hexPeriod]

I'd love for next month's install to be about swaywm, zfs, and encryption.

[@SireFOSS]

Man I'd love a ZFS video, I've never been able to successfully install Arch with it

[@MrStefanomagni]

I get stuck with: GRUB_ after rebooting (I am following your video line by line). Any idea why it happens ? Thanks for your videos

[@phantomrex1348]

Hi I want to thank you for your amazing videos. I remember having issues on installing arch at the beginning but after watching your video I got it up and running. On the way I used many other Linux distributions such as artix, fedora, etc.... Still and not confident using Linux. I always find a specific issue in one distribution which is resolved in another but then there comes another problem it's really a tradeoff. I wanted to ask you what the most stable Linux distribution would be in your mind I'm still gonna be using Linux heavily and I needed more advanced than Ubuntu I've been running Ubuntu but Im not comfortable with it. It's an amazing Linux distribution but it's a package manager I'm just not comfortable with it..... I'm currently doing robotics any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I would like to mention that when using fedora actually broke my binaries. Really my fault.

[@androidterminal3924]

try manjaro

[@thisisntmymainaccount7923]

@Ougy i would prefer Endeavour os it's pure arch out of the box.

[@mrtetillas7504]

13:12 i have a nvidia 9500 GT, i use mesa/nouveau drivers because my gpu is too old that dont have oficial support from nvidia, what i should to put in that place?? just nvidia??

[@ahmedifhaam7266]

Where do I go for a super in depth from the very scratch installing arch linux guide, also could someone tell me why artix is preferred quite a lot these days? Also this guys videos are bomb, very nice

[@castorisdead]

Hello Ermano! I need you to help me. I just updated my system and kdenlive is crashing at startup. I found that newer version of QT packages are causing trouble. I need to downgrade them but I don't know to which exact version cause i cleared the var. So, would you mind sharing the output of $ pacman -Q | grep qt. I would be glad

[@JM-sn5eb]

Thank you for the video. During mkfs.btrfs you got SSD not detected. Is ssd option in fstab enough to fix it? It doesn't matter if during format ssd wasn't forced ?

[@eflinux]

It should be ok to add it.

[@damonbeaver]

git lab scripts say whatttttt soo cool i gotta check these out!

[@Limp_Daddy]

Can anyone tell me why the install times out, then reboots during fresh install?

[@sjnims]

Can you do this with a fully encrypted disk? Partially encrypted?

[@androidterminal3924]

are the steps same for mbr bios except for partitioning?

[@initium7425]

Thanks Ermanno, is it possible that you show us how to use gitlab so that we can create our own installation scripts. Thank you

[@eflinux]

There you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqube5Wup5h_e5o

[@initium7425]

Thank you very much

[@GooogleGoglee]

❤

[@sleeepyishere611]

hey can you make a video on how to dual boot arch linux with the arch install script?

[@ibrahimjorgediasferreira2379]

Hello can you answer this please If I have an nvme instead of ssd the procede of the installation are the same? And thank you so much for all

[@eflinux]

Yes, just replace the name of the disk.

[@sermarr]

Agh.. Ermanno.. you forgot... for non US beginners... the first thing to do, always.... loadkeys

[@duser]

i followed your last btrfs install to the T but snapper nor timeshift worked. i think i messed up somewhere. anyways i was waiting for a reinstall from windows and now i have the perfect excuse! Stay safe Ermano!

[@justjoshing75]

how did you get into the repo

[@piotrtalarczyk8987]

Eh, va ben. Da oggi commenterò qui in italiano. 😉🇮🇹

[@ezrarocco260]

Hey love the video. I just have one problem I followed last months install guide and when I get to exiting and booting in to it for the first time it will not let me login it jus says the username and password are incorrect. If you have any ideas pleas write back thanks.

[@eflinux]

Try logging in with root and the password 'password' and change it.

[@lennart3100]

Is there a particular reason why you are using the fstrim.timer service here? From my understanding the discard=async mount option is already enough to enable TRIM isn't it?

[@seanpaul7069]

Share video of your home and neighbour in Italy 😎

[@robpas3731]

Ah sei in Italia. Nord Italia? Ti avrei offerto un caffè 😊

[@eflinux]

Vicino a Bologna :)

[@christenorio9555]

Why is there no gdisk with hot swap Linux btrfs firmware to preloading like btrfs bios chipset motherboard?

[@thisisntmymainaccount7923]

I think this Marsian wants to communicate

[@vickylance]

@@thisisntmymainaccount7923 rofl :D

[@Appalling68]

Ermanno, sorry to bother you and post a third time. I've had a heck of a problem doing this tutorial in VirtualBox, and I know my issues are due to VB. Would you please state what virtual environment you are using? Thank you once again.

[@eflinux]

To be clear, you never bother. How do you mean environment?

[@Appalling68]

@@eflinux I mean, what other than VirtualBox are you using? KVM?

[@eflinux]

Yes, KVM.

[@jesse7631]

Hi Ermanno, I downloaded the latest ISO but when I log in as root, I don't know what to use as the password. How do I find it / or change it?

[@eflinux]

Hi Jesse, the ISO itself doesn't have one.

[@l3ftbra1n32]

I’ve tried this install at least 10 times with 0% success…. Everything seems to go good till reboot and grub never shows up. Seen other comments with replies that don’t make sense to me.. any help is greatly appreciated, also didn’t realize this would delete my windows install even though I made a separate partition specifically for Arch.

[@eflinux]

It doesn't delete windows. It's just that grub does not detect other OS's by default anymore. I have a video for that on the channel.

[@joseluiscuevastorres6156]

excellent video my dear friend, I'm sorry to hear the situation derived from the invasion of Ukraine, but believe me, I understand perfectly here in Mexico we are not having a very good time

[@dxppwr]

after reboot the GBRU bootloader didn't appeared :(

[@eflinux]

Make sure you see the video description in the script about grub.

[@netbin]

I thought you went outside to say that famous russian phrase about russian warship xD xD xD

[@nejathakan5521]

👍❤️🌹

[@mustafababdullah2485]

Something new sir. Seams that arch is playing games again. The iso will show no ip everything is down this has been everything. Cute is to command systemctl enable -- now NetworkManager then iwctl. I live in an area like many that we don't have nothing but wifi 😅 the town has much cheaper internet than the local cable companies. Nice to be outside and back home I hope

[@thisisntmymainaccount7923]

If you installed the network manager package you need to type nmtui to connect

[@ahmedmorgan348]

I was using BTRFS but it's not good for SSD drive

[@redrush-hp9li]

Why?

[@myfavouritecolorisgreen]

zram creation - 21:43

[@justjoshing75]

i tried the public repo but it asks for a username and password.. what am I missing?

[@eflinux]

Hi Josh, it should be working without.

[@justjoshing75]

@@eflinux ill try again

[@justjoshing75]

I sent you a tweet

[@justjoshing75]

@@eflinux I got it sorry

[@mattiacardone8148]

@@justjoshing75 how? I keet getting errors..

[@andrewhuang6232]

hi,EF. i have been watching your channel many times. the issue is that i have arch and windows10 on my laptop. but i had windows 10 upgrade to 11, new installation. so when i use arch livecd to install grub. mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot mount /dev/nvme0n1p8 /mnt arch-chroot /mnt grub install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-director=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB and no error reported grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg and found windows 11 also no error reproted but when i reboot computer. there is no arch linux boot item only windows can be start. i can not boot my arch . why? please help me ,how can i fix this issue? thanks.

[@mrtetillas7504]

install os-prober AUR, then go to /etc/default/grub and add GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false to do that just boot into the arch usb, arch-chroot /mnt (i think), later to do that use this command sudo update-grub, if dosent exit that command the install from AUR. that works for me

[@andrewhuang6232]

@@mrtetillas7504 i install os-prober,mtools etc. except update-grub no command to excute. and i cd /mnt/boot directory ,there is a EFI directory. so i do again grub install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-director=/boot/EFI --bootloader-id=GRUB also no error reported. result: same as before. only windows 11 , no Arch linux item. it made me crazy.

[@andrewhuang6232]

@@mrtetillas7504 hi,i have the issue fixed. arch linux can be booted up now. the problem is that i made the wrong --efi-directory=/boot or /boot/efi but --efi-directory=/efi is correct. i had checked the /etc/fstab , i found the EFI partion is mounted on /efi so i correct it, finally it works.