Installing notes for my personal use.
Sardi v 7.2.9 at Sourceforge
Steps to take when installing Mate from scratch
Pop in the latest arch usb
loadkeys be-latin1
cfdisk /dev/sda
delete all partitions
sda1 / everything minus 8GB for swap making sure it is primary and bootable (asterisk!)
sda2 /swap 8 GB primary type swap (82)
write - yes -quit
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
pacman -Sy
pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
nano /etc/locale.gen
uncomment these lines
be_BY.UTF8
en_GB.UTF8
en_US.UTF8
CTRL + X , yes, enter
locale-gen
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
nano /etc/vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=be-latin1
FONT=lat9w-16
CTRL + X , yes, enter
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc --utc
echo ArchErik > /etc/hostname
nano /etc/hosts
<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ArchErik
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost ArchErik
touch /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
pacman -S networkmanager
systemctl enable NetworkManager
mkinitcpio -p linux
passwd
pacman -S grub os-prober
grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
umount /dev/sda1
exit
reboot
#FASE 2 root
login with root and use the password
useradd -m -g users -G wheel,storage,power -s /bin/bash erik
passwd erik
EDITOR=nano visudo
Look for these lines with an hashtag in front
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
hashtag (#) should be gone
CTRL = X , yes and enter
pacman -S bash-completion
if no internet - again
sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager
exit
Login with new account i.e. here erik and password
sudo pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit xorg-twm xterm
sudo pacman -S xf86-video-nouveau
sudo pacman -S mate mate-extra
easy switching between desktop environments and login
sudo pacman -S gdm
systemctl enable gdm.service
systemctl start gdm.service
change your keyboard to belgian in the settings
export EDITOR=nano
sudo pacman -S firefox
Surf to https://github.com/erikdubois/ArchMate
If you download the zip
sudo pacman -S file-roller
Download and right mouse click to extract
If you work with git
sudo pacman -S git
git clone https://github.com/erikdubois/ArchMate
Go inside the folder and run every program in there
./0 added this to start xserver, desktop environment and display manager
./1 and press tab etcetera
./2 ...
./3 ...
run forest run
printscreen keyboard shortcut
scrot -e ~/Pictures/capt-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S').png