GRUB, REFIND, SYSTEMD-BOOT OR EFISTUB
The images are shown in that order from left to right, from top to bottom.
Reboot selecting the first line.
Login as root with the password you choose.
root
Then type in your password.
Confirm NetworkManager activated the internet with pacman -Syu. (sudo is not required since you are root)
Since pacman can download in parallel we want to activate this in /etc/pacman.conf
Delete the # before ParallelDownloads = 5 and maybe increase the number.
nano /etc/pacman.conf
AUR HELPERS
Because your AUR helper may change over time, check the following webpage from time to time:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers
ArcoLinux is using Yay and Paru as Aur helpers.
Two Aur helpers: if one fails, the other is there as fall-back.
We suggest installing the helpers from a graphical environment.
MULTILIB REPOSITORY
YOU CAN DO THIS LATER
SKIP IT FOR NOW
Multilib repositories include applications such as wine and steam. You can perferm these actions later at your discretion.
nano /etc/pacman.conf
Edit the pacman.conf to include the multilib repositories. Just delete the hashtag in front of the two lines. We changed some of the settings on top as well. They are interesting but not essential.
[multilib] include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Check out our ArcoLinux pacman.conf if you want to have the same settings.
If you update the system after the changes, you will see an extra line for multilib.
For our ease and future comfort we install bash-completion. It completes commands when you press on TAB.
pacman -S bash-completion
Next is to create our personal account for which you chose a login name.
As ane example, I will create an account “erik” with this command (more information on this page)
useradd -m -g users -G audio,video,network,wheel,storage,rfkill -s /bin/bash erik
To make the password for the account, type:
passwd erik
For user “erik” to do administrative tasks requires editing the visudo file installed by the base-devel group package.
Type the following command:
EDITOR=nano visudo
Look for this line of code and delete the hashtag in front of it.
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
Then logout with
exit
useradd -m -g users -G audio,video,network,wheel,storage,rfkill -s /bin/bash erik
passwd erik
EDITOR=nano visudo
%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
exit
Log back in with your personal account.
I will login with erik and its password.
erik
Fill in your personal password.
Internet is activated thanks to networkmanager. We try it out with sudo pacman -Syu.
sudo pacman -Syu
