🐧 arch-post-install

personal arch post install script for a base arch linux installation

✨What does it do?

This script setups my personal arch linux environment. It installs the packages defined in the packages.csv file and clones my personal dotfiles from my dotfiles repository.

📦 Installation

Get the latest arch iso
- Flash it to a USB
- Boot from USB
- If you want to install from a other device, you can do that over SSH. Use "passwd" to create a temporary password for the root user.
Run the command "archinstall"
Set following settings
- Archinstall language: English
- Keyboard layout: uk
- Mirror region: Switzerland
- Locale language: en_US
- Locale encoding: UTF-8
- Drives: Choose single drive and wipe it
  - Filesystem: ext4
  - Create separate partiton for home: no
- Encrypton: none
- Bootloader: GRUB
- SWAP: TRUE
- Hostname: Set any hostname
- Root password: set password
- Create user:
  - username:
  - Add to sudo group
- Profile:
  - Desktop i3-wm
  - Use gpu drivers according to the machine you install
- Audio: pipewire
- Kernel: linux
- Additional packages: git openssh
- Network configuration: Use networkmanager
- Timezone: Europe/Zurich
Everything else on default
Start install and when finished enter per chroot
- Open terminal and set keyboard layout: "setxkbmap gb"
- Start sshd service via "sudo systemctl start sshd"
Post arch installation execute the following command with your main user

bash <(curl -Lks https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rabume/arch-post-install/main/install)

This script requires intereactive input, so you have to be present during the installation.

Manual steps

Setup Wireguard VPN connection

Get Wireguard config
Import config with the nmcli tool

nmcli connection import type wireguard file wg0.conf

Setup Git profile

Follow the README.md of the git-profile repository.

Setup Vencord

Vencord is a discord client mod.

sh -c "$(curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Vendicated/VencordInstaller/main/install.sh)"

Setup Spicetify

Install the spicetify marketplace so you can install themes and extensions.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/spicetify-marketplace/main/resources/install.sh | sh

Extensions

Adblock
keybard-shortcuts

Setup SSH

To setup SSH, you need to copy your SSH keys to the new machine. You can do this with the following command:

ssh-copy-id username@<ip>

Add your SSH keys to the ~/.ssh/config file.

Host github.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github
    AddKeysToAgent yes

To always use ssh instead of http for GitHub uncomment the following lines in the ~/.gitconfig file:

[url "git@github.com:"]
    insteadOf = https://github.com/

Setup GPG

To setup GPG, you need to copy your GPG keys to the new machine. You can do this with the following command:

gpg --import <keyfile>

Setup Firefox

Setup custom Firefox CSS/JS. Follow the instructions on my github.com/rabume/firefox-css repository.

Setup multiple monitors

Under .screenlayout you can find the screenlayout scripts. You can use them to setup your monitors. The current script is configured for a 3 monitor setup. Uncomment the loadings of the scripts in the i3 config file if you want to use them.

rabume / arch-post-install