Arch Linux: The Calam Arch Installer

If you want to quickly install Arch Linux you can use the Calam Arch Installer, which will allow you to install Arch using the Calamares installer where you can customize the packages you want to have.
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[@drumpf4all]

Congratulations on the success of the channel. Already 12K+. Soon you will hit 100K in no time.

[@eflinux]

Thanks!

[@moinm8206]

Tqvm my man... your channel is really helpful for people new to arch...

[@eflinux]

You’re welcome!

[@warfist-mv8mh]

I had no idea this existed until this video, almost done downloading the iso & I can't wait to try it out on in a vm.

[@lingux_yt]

in the vm you may need vm-tools. gotta install it on the terminal, after the Calamares installation

[@DavidHaras]

As always Ermanno a good video showing new ways to install Arch thanks and I am trying this as I type . Update - All done now fresh install of Arch with Plasma DE - couldn't have been easier :)

[@eflinux]

Thanks for sharing!

[@davidrichardson2513]

Thank you very much, very interesting. Installed to bare metal this afternoon, loved it!! Thanks again.

[@eflinux]

Enjoy!

[@xaviervitor]

Thank you so much. This video helped me figure out the Calamares Installer interface. Cheers

[@Appalling68]

Wow. Another Arch installer. I'll give it a try in a VM just for the heck of it. As a side note, man oh man is downloading from Sourceforge painfully slow! Thanks again, Ermanno.

[@eflinux]

If you do let me know how you like it!

[@wassimhabibi1166]

Neat content & professional explanation as usual. Keep it up and thank you so much

[@eflinux]

Much appreciated!

[@MyReviews_karkan]

I don't get why arch refuses a GUI installer. This is going to bring a lot more people to arch. I'll try it actually.

[@eflinux]

Let's say that every distro has its purpose. Arch is "meant" to be installed from the terminal because of the flexibility it offers. You can literally build it and configure it the way you want, which is a little harder with an installer. Also, the fact you need to install from the terminal is a great opportunity to learn the inner-working of Linux. Learning to install Arch from scratch give you some good knowledge and skills in system administration in general. I am sure there are many other reasons I am not mentioning here, but those are significant to me.

[@lingux_yt]

it could be just a terminal thingy, only to remind us all the steps. it would be nice

[@insayn01]

Thank you. This has made my life so much easier :)

[@xAlesjpx]

Good to now about this installer. I installed Arcolinux in my VM because I didn't want to go through all the Arch's installation process. BTW, did you see that there is an installer in the Arch official repository? It is called archinstall. I think they added it this year in their repository. You could take a look as well. Thank you for your videos!

[@eflinux]

Oh thanks for the heads up! I'll have a look at it!

[@richardmonroe4208]

Arcolinux is another good choice for installing Arch (with the Calamares installer).

[@eflinux]

True, although that will install Arco branded packages only, if I am not mistaken.

[@richardmonroe4208]

@@eflinux I think Arco is actually 5% Arco and 95% Arch. Also you always have the AUR to go to.

[@Andreas-fh9zf]

Hallo, Hatte nicht gewusst, dass es so einen Arch Installer gibt. Werde es in einer VM versuchen. Danke für das Video und LG aus Wien

[@eflinux]

Danke Andreas und liebe Grüsse!

[@bobwright8000]

Thanks. This is very helpful for a quick installation of Arch. I didn't know about this installer, but it looks good.

[@eflinux]

Glad it was helpful!

[@AkshatPandey]

I personally tried this (replaced my windows with arch with this method), and it works flawlessly just don't choose deepin as DE, worst

[@lingux_yt]

deepin was very laggy on my computer. is that an incompatibility with Arch?

[@AkshatPandey]

@@lingux_yt dunno, there's just lots of issue with arch deepin

[@cacogenicist]

Deepin DE is very nice -- it's just buggy as hell on Arch. I think because the Arch repo DDE components are beta versions, or DDE releases are on their distro's release schedule. Or something.

[@bit2964]

oh, i was about to install arch with deepin on my amd A12 cpu laptop

[@rachiddegraaff2634]

Great video Ermanno! Is this your fastest Arch install attempt so far? :P

[@eflinux]

:)

[@Appalling68]

Ok, just went through the install. Please PLEASE Calam Arch Installer dev, remove the maddening password restrictions in the "User" part of the installer. I always use the same pin number when doing VM installs for evaluation so I DON'T have to remember some other more complex p/w the installer decided was necessary to me. Frustrating.

[@DCM777.]

ok you but you can change your password after install.

[@Appalling68]

@@DCM777. Well yes. But why force the user into a “minimal password strength” requirement in the first place?

[@eonshade6297]

I think this can be worked around by editing /src/modules/users/users.conf then changing these values allowWeakPasswordsDefault: false allowWeakPasswords: false to be true instead of false allowWeakPasswordsDefault: true allowWeakPasswords: true Same password restrictions apply to Artix Linux as well.

[@aleklalek3413]

As always Ermanno a good video. Thank You. Al.

[@eflinux]

Many thanks!

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

I'll stick to the official way of installing Arch but this is is great installer if you don't have enough time to (re)install Arch Linux.

[@haddocks]

Thanks Ermanno great content! Do you think one day to make a demo on the calamares configuration? It could be great..

[@jesse7631]

Another great video Ermanno, thank you! If you are specifying an existing EFI partition for this distro's boot partition, will you be able to dual boot between it and Windows Boot Manager?

[@markrush2107]

Frankly I don't see why we really need anything like this installer. First of all, the people in #archlinux will tell you that if you install Arch this way, the result will not be Arch -- and they will refuse to support you. Second, once you know what you're doing, installing the "canonical" way (using the Arch wiki's Installation Guide) takes maybe 15 minutes, if that. That said, I'm sure your excellent video will help introduce someone to Arch, which is always a good thing. Keep up the good work!

[@eflinux]

Hey Mark! Thanks for sharing. Curiously though, I found a package in the main repo called archinstall. It is a script to install Arch. I haven't tried it out yet, but I find it odd to have it included in the main repo. I agree with you that this is not the preferable way to install Arch and anyway installing from the terminal allows you to have many more options compared to any installer. But, as you said, this might help someone discover Arch, and frankly that is in my opinion always welcome.

[@lingux_yt]

arch's guide sucks for beginners. it has too much info. I installed mine reading two blogs and combining the info on them. THEN, after some weeks using it, I went to the guide to check everything

[@LuneLovehearn]

This looks neat. I would like to give it a try.

[@eflinux]

If you do let me know how it goes!

[@LuneLovehearn]

@@eflinux yeah.. I'll let you know. currently I use Manjaro but I have the curiosity and temptation of trying arch with this method. In another topics, idk if you have talked about void Linux and installing it with KDE Plasma as DE.

[@eflinux]

I have a video on Void on the channel for now.

[@rbharath89]

Thanks for the wonderful video...reminds me a lot of the installer in arcolinux and endeavour os...btw what would you suggest as a good place to start on window managers ?? I mean easier to learn...

[@eflinux]

Go for i3 or bspwm :) And sorry for the late reply.

[@SimilakChild]

Never heard of Calam.. I used the helmuthdu /aui installer on github.

[@ganit_ak]

Question : How did you get internet connection ? Through Wi-Fi ? How did you make sure it's functional. And also what need to be done if not? Or did you have Ethernet plugged in ? Thanks for the great video btw

[@eflinux]

Hi there, that was on a VM, so everything comes from the host. If you want an up to date video detailing how to get Wi-Fi you can check the latest video on the channel which focuses on the fundamentals.

[@voiceoftreason1760]

too bad it can not do encrypted LUKS installation or esp mount on /boot, but this is a really nice development. There seems to be no source code for this available though? only the iso on the sourceforge page

[@hype0thetical]

Can we use btrfs and snapshots with that installer? I'd like to try arch but I also want to use btrfs and snapshots

[@eflinux]

I am not sure if you can create subvolumes in the installer, although I haven't tried that myself yet.

[@studiolinux]

Why this calam iso does not support EFI (ovdmf) on kvm/libvirt?

[@carlandersen7096]

Professional explanation . Keep it up and thank you so much

[@eflinux]

Thank you Carl!

[@abaneyone]

This is excellent! Is this the same Arch that installs without the Calamares installer?

[@eflinux]

Yes.

[@ricardonunes709]

Thank you. Is it possible to use calamares for a LVM install?

[@mustafababdullah2485]

It seems that I've solved my issue with my laptop trying to install, Arch on it. Don't exit installer after completion just power machine off then pull flash drive. Reboot. I have a bios that is crazy it a hybrid it is uefi/ bios that wants to show only bois, so i have to install efi and mbr like a removable. Can't complain to much the laptop was free

[@eflinux]

Glad you sorted it out!

[@mustafababdullah2485]

@@eflinux also i missed reading the stuff about indexing service i book marked on chromium no doubt. Thanks for bringing it to attention likely i would have missed all together for some time. Keep the great work up.

[@degenerate8228]

U used this some time ago was good. Just that does not have lxqt option in there.

[@MB-gf6zd]

Hello Ermanno , thanks for Yours video , I'd see an installation with arch and win in dual boot config . Another question for You , what do You think about the installation of Arch on my Huawey D14 in dual boot instead the actual Manjaro ?

[@eflinux]

Hey Mauro, it should work fine if Manjaro works on it. You'll have to make sure to check the drivers you need before installing.

[@user-xw8db6pc1y]

Thank you. interesting of course, but I'm making my own "bike", that is, the installation script

[@thatguynar]

So it seems like this is even better than archfi script?

[@raypasour5259]

Cool, I will give it a try.....

[@bandit.heeler1]

Gracias hermano, buena info.

[@terrestrialbeing5911]

Thank you so much for suggesting a faster way to install Arch Linux... successfully installed Arch with gnome for the first time. My laptop is connected to an external monitor. After booting up, the light dm greeter shows only on the laptop screen but not on the external screen. How do I make the login screen appear on the external monitor too...?

[@anadolijamajh4181]

thank you for very useful video

[@TechyMechie]

Could you make a video about installing nvidia cuda cudnn tensorflow please? Thanks

[@eflinux]

At the moment I don't have PC's with an Nvidia card, but I will look into it once I get my hands on one.

[@xade8381]

u can also use the base installation scripts I've created, gitlab.com/prozects/setdist read the instructions.

[@eflinux]

Thanks! I'll have a look at it!

[@morenteria2988]

Thank you again for your help and your time! I installed the gnome desktop and everything is going good. But I noticed that the lightdm greeter looks outdated. I looked to see if I can update it but I can't find it anywhere. Since it's a rolling release, will it automatically update eventually? Or do I need to do it myself?

[@eflinux]

If you run sudo pacman -Syu and there are no updates, then you're good. Arch always has the latest packages.

[@morenteria2988]

@@eflinux Thank you for your reply! Is there a way to update it? Or I stay with the outdated looking greeter. I hope I don't sound ungrateful, LoL.

[@eflinux]

Which greeter did you install?

[@morenteria2988]

@@eflinux I actually was able to install Slick greeter and I'm pretty happy with it. I truly appreciate your help. Hope you and your family are doing well, cheers!

[@eflinux]

That's the nicest for me too :) Thanks! Stay healthy!

[@NerdOfHarvard]

Hello Ermanno. Can you recommend any minimalist secure chat clients?

[@eflinux]

What kind of chat?

[@novalzeuz]

Mine dont have the esp flags, how?

[@nikkoll59]

How to write this image to a USB flash drive from under Windows?

[@eflinux]

You can do it with rufus. Download at rufus.ie.

[@ivailopetrov2827]

I saw you have an RX GPU, which driver do you use usually? The kernel driver or some of the others?

[@eflinux]

The open driver, xf86-video-amdgpu.

[@ivailopetrov2827]

@@eflinux okay I had weird problems before with the stock driver or something.. idle crashes (black screens) for no reason. I hope they fixed it if it was the driver. Have you had a similar issue?

[@eflinux]

I did have. I discovered in the latest builds I had to add the driver module to the mkinitcpio.conf file. Since then, it is working perfectly.

[@ivailopetrov2827]

@@eflinux you mean mkinitcpio.conf ?

[@eflinux]

Yes sorry, auto correction :)

[@unlimited7394]

I do not have esp, idk why but what should i choose?

[@eflinux]

How many partitions did you create? Are you trying a dual boot?

[@eflinux]

Dual boot?

[@eflinux]

Then you’ll need to create it as an efi partition.

[@SRNascimento81]

how to change the login screen?

[@LuneLovehearn]

Is there any difference between this iso and the regular Manjaro kde?

[@eflinux]

With this installer you will not have any Manjaro packages. Just pure Arch.

[@wayneferguson14]

what do you thank about slackware i already live in slackware current all the time

[@eflinux]

I have to try that one yet.

[@novalzeuz]

I want to install arch as my 2nd boot aside windows. Do i need to change some step or just follow the entire video?

[@eflinux]

Make sure secure boot and fast boot are disabled.

[@novalzeuz]

@@eflinux so just follow the entire video?

[@eflinux]

You can, but make sure you have a backup of your data before attempting. This video is meant to install Arch only. To dual boot you'll need to make sure you install the bootloader in the Windows EFI partition or create a second efi partition for Arch and install the bootloader there.

[@novalzeuz]

@@eflinux im sorry because I'm really new to this, so I've shrink some of my storage, and partition it like u did in the video, is that alright? and the desktop, which one should i choose for a windows user? i ve installed ubuntu before and the desktop is ok, but then tried to install arch, all terminal

[@eflinux]

I don't see how you partitioned the disk, the only thong I can say is make sure to follow one of the approaches I described before for dualbooting. As for DE, if you want to have Windows similar experience you should probably go for KDE.

[@jakebush7809]

Which is preferable the swap partition or the swap file? Or does it really matter?

[@eflinux]

I'd say with low RAM a Swap partition. With more than 16GB a Swapfile.

[@jakebush7809]

@@eflinux perfect! Thank you sir! Also, if I create the home partition, would it be /mnt/home

[@eflinux]

Yes :)

[@athulksuresh9164]

is it possible to make own installer for linux ? plz reply

[@eflinux]

It is possible with the right tools.

[@athulksuresh9164]

@@eflinux can give some examples.

[@eflinux]

Archiso or the calamres installer. I haven't covered those yet.

[@totalingseven]

Is it the original or is it just similar?

[@eflinux]

There is no original script to install Arch, but this one installs pretty vanilla.

[@totalingseven]

@@eflinux Thank you very much!

[@Mangeshrex_]

sir i dont have wifi is it possible in 2 gigabites?

[@eflinux]

Hello, how do you mean that?

[@Mangeshrex_]

@@eflinux i mean that i dont have a wifi and i only have 2gb per day of data. so my question is can i install arch with 2 gigabyte?

[@eflinux]

Oh I see, it depends on what you are going to install. For the base install it should be enough, but then it really depends on the DE or WM you want to install.

[@Mangeshrex_]

@@eflinux am installing i3 wm and other minimal things like termite and other things

[@eflinux]

It should be ok, but watch out the size of installing packages before you install them.

[@nelduarte311]

Installation stopped at 11%... tried several times

[@eflinux]

With an error?

[@eflinux]

Did you try the manual partitioning or went for auto?

[@nelduarte311]

@@eflinux Dear Ermanno ,I went for auto. Thank you.

[@nelduarte311]

@@eflinux Dear Ermanno, no error, simply stopped.

[@eflinux]

You might want to report that on the github.

[@mustafababdullah2485]

I can not get this to work on a vm however it worked fine on metal, yay isn't being maintained however one of the developers made paru if you have yay you can install with yay or git clone aur.archlinux.org/paru.git

[@eflinux]

Thanks, I'll do a video on that soon.

[@DCM777.]

Calam Arch is installing junk that you don't need.

[@CesarPeron]

what junk?

[@eonshade6297]

To bypass strong password requirements required by Calamares, navigate to /src/modules/users/users.conf then, change these values allowWeakPasswordsDefault: false allowWeakPasswords: false to be true instead of false allowWeakPasswordsDefault: true allowWeakPasswords: true