Installing Arch Linux

For those who require a step-by-step guide, here's a walkthrough for how to install my personal favorite desktop GNU/Linux distribution, Arch Linux.
If you'd like to follow along in text form, here are the relevant pages on the Arch Wiki:
- General installation guide: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...
- Partitioning: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...
- Bootloader installation: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...
- General post-installation guide: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...
- Adding a user: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...
- Setting up sudo: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...
- Installing a display manager: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...
- Installing the SDDM display manager: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...
- Installing a desktop environment: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...
- Installing KDE Plasma (and KDE Applications): wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE
- Prevent a black screen when booting in Intel mode on an Intel/NVIDIA switchable-graphics machine: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...
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[@michaelurig3887]

I’ve watched a lot of videos installing Arch. This is the best one yet. Very simple.

[@MarioMartinez_]

Best Archlinux installation guide I've seen... and I've seen a lot. Thank you

[@mehmetkaraman3710]

awesome video. i have been trying to install arch for 2 days and this saved the day. being up to date helped me a lot. thank you so much, i'm going to recommend this to my friends as well.

[@thomasalexander3945]

Brilliant, clear, easy to follow, with a lot of pausing the video to type in the commands... Very happy

[@michaelweichhardt]

Holy **** :D you are like a younger version of the guy in LinuxTV - I like you both a lot. Best Linux channels!!!

[@kebbakanyi]

Dude you saved me!! I have a laptop with both nvidia and intel gpu and other installations keep having boot issues. Thank you!

[@chimak111]

Thank you for mentioning `iwd` during the pacstrap step. If only I had watched your video earlier!!!

[@Rotten_Veggies]

Thank you so much for this video. Very helpful and well explained.

[@yiannifunataoldotcom]

excellent video! thank you so much! I love your videos!

[@danieliniguezv]

once again amazing job. thank you so much.

[@jimmihenry]

Forget about Etcher go with Ventoy it's dope ;) Just copy your ISO's onto a Ventoy prepared pendrive, you can have a lot of ISO's at once! Even Windows.

[@eunjookim1474]

Use dd command

[@Mech_gui]

Dude you knocked this install vid out!

[@sage5578]

Nice installation guide. This is the guide I wish I had when I started with Arch linux 2 months ago.

[@TejenderPrasad]

You earned yourself a subscriber :)

[@jacksonsauder8248]

thank you so much this helped a lot

[@Marcio2360]

Dear teacher, Could you tell me why this function no longer appears in the new versions on archlinux. In dolphin, network had a very useful function which was to add network folder (ftp, sftp, webdav) It just doesn't show up anymore, could you confirm?

[@kevin_techie]

Hey, thank you so much for your video. Your explanations are very helpful throughout the complete installation. However, could you please tell me the difference between the "sudo systemctl reboot" and the normal "reboot" command itself? What if I just use "umount -R /mnt" and then "reboot", I mean, does it make a difference? And, should I use the "umount" command before reboot in your case (after the "sync" command)? Thanks in advance!

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

The "reboot" command is just a compatibility symlink to "systemctl reboot" in all major distributions at this point, so you are running the longer command either way. I like to type out the full version, but it makes no difference (other than learning good habits.) Part of the reboot process is unmounting everything, so that shouldn't be necessary, but like how I ran "sync" just to make sure everything had been written (even though that shouldn't be necessary), it wouldn't hurt to unmount the /mnt directory before rebooting for added safety.

[@kevin_techie]

@@NerdOnTheStreet Got it. Thanks so much!

[@busancun]

Tried to install Arch last time spending one hour, but got GNOME along with a lot of games even if entered commands to install KDE. Didn't know how this could have happened. Before the installation, I had used Manjaro for over two years. All of a sudden, I was out of Ethernet connection but got wireless. Tried openSUSE the Ethernet was good, then switched to openSUSE.

[@nguyenhoang7767]

Thank you so much .love u

[@thomasalexander3945]

Great video. One thing missing by the end (on my attempt) was no file manager. Had to add dolphin via terminal. Discover doesn't work, as it complains about "no application back-ends found", so perhaps those could be included in the package list during the install steps?

[@thomasalexander3945]

To make Discover work do this "sudo pacman -S packagekit-qt5" in terminal

[@danieliniguezv]

thank you so much

[@Marcio2360]

I don't know if this is happening to the others, but on the wifi network when about 10 minutes the computer freezes and I have to restart it. This does not happen in the wired network. systemctl status NetworkManager warning: no upstream servers configured I don't know if it has anything to do. I look forward and thanks for the return

[@rohanpius]

Boot hangs on "Created slice Root Slice" and timeouts.. Doesn't go forward after that.. HELP PLS

[@lucidace9281]

How do you install LUKS full disk encryption, like on Manjaro

[@linuxcompdaylogs8419]

Hello. I wanted to add several things: 08:36 - it is not a grub menu. It is systemd-boot menu. 12:09 - actually, you could already know in which mode you have booted, because you saw systemd-boot menu. If you boot in Legacy mode, you see a syslinux menu (the one with Arch Linux background image). 15:13 - separating home is useful, so it is strange to hear that you do not recommend that. 36:30 - you better use visudo instead of directly editing a file to avoid errors

[@eng2220]

After successfully Installing Arch linux ( GDM). When i rebooted the system the login screen appeared. But after login there is no icon and only show blue screen. Help! HELP!

[@akashchauhan1116]

As you have stated that you have installed GDM, but have you installed any Desktop Environment ( like Gnome, KDE, etc)...? if you haven't then install it...n...if you haven't then try reinstalling it... how can you install you may ask:- You won't be able to do anything after login in...so press CTRL+ALT+F2 or F3...it will start a new terminal window then do the above mentioned steps

[@eng2220]

@@akashchauhan1116 I have tried with Gnome DE (atleast 7times)but got only blue screen with no icons..After change DE to LXQt then all issue resolved. Now I replace Arch with KDE Neon and I am very much happy with it becoz of highly customisable , light weight os , etc. etc. But when I was trying to install Arch with gnome no one helped me.....I seached every where and post on arch forum even also commented on many youtuber's video...But Finally got partially success with LXQt. Thank you for your comment (but very late) as you mentioned CTRL + ALT +T to get terminal...when I got blue screen after Reboot there is no icons and even if I can't move to Settings. There is only option that Hard ShutDown to reboot the system.

[@akashchauhan1116]

@@eng2220 i got you, Back then I was also not aware of all this like CTRL+ALT+F2, etc.... gnome is really good..you just have to install "gdm gnome gnome-extra" and then "systemctl enable gdm"... that's it Quick Tip :- you can get you hands around arch linux by installing it in Virtual Machines like "VMware" or "Virtualbox"...when you get used to the installation & procedure and get the desired output on virtualMachines then you can finally install Arch on your personal Machine peace ✌️

[@eng2220]

@@akashchauhan1116 Thanks For your suggestion. But I have done all this before but got no success 😔 I used Arch with LXQt for 1month and feels some pros and cons. Thanks a lot for reply.

[@eh-lo2do]

I notice you didn’t install xorg is it included in plasma group or nvidia ?

[@__gadonk__]

I think it is included in plasma

[@MstanhopeTX]

I find Arch simple and easy to use!

[@riyadulmollick]

Now I am installing neofetch..😁

[@adepjunk]

Hi, thank for this useful video. I have an old computer 32bit processor. I want to install a Linux distro on it. Would arch Linux be a candidate? I realize KDE plasma wouldnt work, maybe a.lightweight graphical display as an alternative? Thanks

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

Arch Linux has dropped support for 32-bit machines (as have many mainstream distributions), although there is an Arch Linux 32 project that is not associated with the main Arch Linux maintainers: archlinux32.org/ You might try the Slackware-based spin of Puppy Linux for a particularly old 32-bit computer: puppylinux.com/ (Anything Ubuntu-based is going to have a limited lifespan, as 20.04 LTS does not support 32-bit machines.)

[@dhananjayraut]

@@NerdOnTheStreet 32 not 64

[@adepjunk]

@@NerdOnTheStreet thanks, I'll check those out

[@lewpoly]

Once the installation is finished and I boot into the system, is there something I need to do in terms of configuring iwd and networkmanager or dhcpcd? I'm able to connect using iwd in the terminal but I can't display an ip. I can't ping websites, or download packages from the terminal. Thank you for the video!

[@GRINGOf10]

i do arch-chroot /mnt and it says failed to run command /bin/bash: no such file or directory :(

[@mauc1833]

Fstab?

[@netbin]

yay

[@bigblobyeet9347]

um I did eveything, and on the last step when I rebooted it went right back to the arch Linux install.... HELP

[@Angel-mh8em]

It's probably booting into the install media, shutdown the pc, unplug the usb and restart again.

[@Justanoobcoder]

You need to unplug usb

[@enkieta8787]

respect

[@sajadshafi]

Bro can you please help me out get audio working on Hybrid System (Intel, Nvidia) cat /proc/asound/card0/codec* | grep Codec Codec: Realtek ALC3246 Codec: Intel Kabylake HDMI lspci -nnk | grep -A2 Audio Kernal drivers in use: snd_hda_intel Kernal modules: snd_hda_intel

[@uzikun]

i got grub-install: error: /boot/efi doesnt look like an efi partition when installing grub

[@uzikun]

in using legacy and not uefi so :/ old laptop

[@mayank5950]

Search how to install grub in BIOS PCs and add entry manually for Arch incase it doesn't list in grub menu

[@nguyenhoang7767]

Sir.please tutorial install gentoo.Pls

[@fritsonpetitfrere9038]

Can you make a .txt or pdf of all the commands you ran please🙏🙏

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

The commands are already in text form on the Arch Wiki.

[@JoseLuis-tm9rb]

Thanks, Nice video, How to install ArchLinux when you have hybrid video card Intel/Nvidia?

[@Angel-mh8em]

he explained in the video

[@akashchauhan1116]

I have ryzen 5 3600( no integrated graphics) and rtx2060.. i was installing Arch in it... everything was smooth until I executed "startx"...it was showing error... I had installed xorg, sddm, plasma-desktop, nvidia, nvidia-utils. Created the "~/.xinitrc" with "exec startkde" It's shutting down X whenever I execute startx. Any help will be much appreciated. peace ✌️

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

Who told you to create an .xinitrc file or to run startx? If you installed sddm, all you have to do is enable its service, it will start Xorg and Plasma for you (as I showed in the video.)

[@akashchauhan1116]

@@NerdOnTheStreet Someone who was bluffing that he knows linux like linus... thanx btw I will try that now one more thing.. I have to install amd-ucode and Nvidia and nvidia-utils According to my cpu and gpu, right?

[@ArmandoCalderon]

I do a minimal debootstrap installation with Debian in a old netbook.

[@uuu12343]

I beg to defer about the archlinux community Just recently in the archlinux telegram group, I had an issue with kde whereby the recent update broke my arch such that all gifs generated by ffmpeg and/or gifski would just stop animating after 1 frame (if anyone has any solutions, please please help me) - in my screenshot I left my swap in it accidentally The first thing someone pointed out was - not my problem, not anything related; it was on my swap. 1.”Why do you need...why do you have 16gb swap file?” as well as (yes, all on the same day) 2.”IM FUCKING GOING CRAZY, why does everyone make such a big Hoo ha when it’s just a literal change in package name” No, I’m not joking - he went berserk because one of the update was that the update asked me if I wanted to change the name for one of the dependencies that was renamed. Apparently it is valid for him to go berserk on me because...I accused that package of being the big problem when i had no choice but to Guess - given that I had nothing to work with NOTHING, no logs as well Oh yes, some fucks asked me to “read the fucking manual”

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

If you were having a problem with ffmpeg, why would you go to an Arch Telegram group instead of, say, the ffmpeg issue tracker? Also, I don't see a link to any Telegram group on Arch's official website, so why are you asserting that a single person in an unofficial Telegram group is representative of the entire Arch Linux "community?" Finally, I'm not part of the Arch "community" and did not say anything about the "community" being good, I said the operating system/distribution is good, which has nothing to do with you getting cursed out by someone online. I also don't believe your last line. I think you're complaining in a KZbin comment because you're frustrated. Just so you know, it won't help.

[@gaurangkharwar206]

many tutorial said cfdisk is easy but gdisk is far more better.

[@Muneeb100]

8:08

[@coreyaudet9656]

Is this what you do when not making movies? j/k You must get that alot. SRY DUDE

[@Aemilindore]

Arch linux needs a single video on youtube that install it inside a LUKS HDD in a root btrfs. NO ONE DOES THAT. NO ONE. WHY?

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I personally don't install "inside a LUKS HDD in a root btrfs" because it sounds like more effort than it's worth. If I was installing on a laptop that I intended to travel with, then I can see wanting LUKS. Fortunately, there is an Arch Wiki page about that topic, which covers multiple specific scenarios: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system

[@Aemilindore]

@@NerdOnTheStreet would you comment on this automated script? Perhaps it can help? github.com/Amalinda/arch

[@Aemilindore]

@@NerdOnTheStreet there are mutiple cases you would want to have LUKS. FOr e.g., to refrain the police from checking your HDD, to safeguard your data from theft etc. and btrfs allowed seamless navigation through snapshots. I wish people promoted this combination more.

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

"Would you comment?" I haven't used that script before, there's a comment. Have you tried it, or did you just link me to a random search result you found? If it looks like it's supposed to do what you're wanting, I would suggest trying it out. If you need LUKS and can't read the Arch Wiki, there are multiple distributions that can set it up for you as part of the installation process, including Ubuntu and Pop!_OS. I have not used Btrfs, I do not need "snapshots" on my personal computer and I can accomplish snapshots at the virtualization level for servers. I would probably try Fedora first if I wanted to get into that. I'm answering your question of why nobody "promotes" crazy combinations of complicated technologies-- they are not as easy to set up, they are easier to mess up, and most people don't need them. If you're asking KZbinrs to make a video tailered to your specific personal use case, what I think you're actually wishing is that those things were easier to use (which a lot of people are working very hard on, but not on KZbin.)

[@Aemilindore]

@@NerdOnTheStreet Yes! I think you read my mind right. Thanks mate. I do agree with you that these technologies are too difficult to set up. But for me, they seem to be too difficult to just ignore. They offer bleeding edge results but at least risk. I say least risk based on comments on the forums etc. But I may be wrong. THanks for spending time explaining an answer in this detail Hats off to you.

[@basalduat]

Seven minutes and his is still talking. Not for me.