Arch Linux on Raspberry Pi

On this tutorial I will be showing you how I would install Arch Linux on my raspberry Pi. Since there are many different approaches to what could be configured there is no right or wrong way to install this. Thanks

on linux PC:

lsblk 

sudo fdisk /dev/sdX

clear partitions on the drive (o)

create first partition (n, p, 1, enter, +100M, t, c)

create second partition (n, p, 2, enter, enter), then write and exit (w)

sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX1 

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX2 

make folder to mount partitions

mkdir /mnt/boot/ 

mkdir /mnt/root/ 

sudo mount /dev/sdx1 /mnt/boot/ 

sudo mount /dev/sdx2 /mnt/root/ 

download and install arch

wget  http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-rpi-2-latest.tar.gz

sudo su

tar zxvf /location/of/file/ArchLinuxARM-rpi-2-latest.tar.gz -C /mnt/root 

mv /mnt/root/boot/* /mnt/boot 

sync

On Raspberry Pi:

login: root

password: root

setting up wifi with wpa_supplicant

sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/home_wifi

add following and edit ssid and psk with your old network info

network={
ssid=”neworkname”
psk=”password”
}

initiating pacman, upgrading arch and install sudo

pacman-key –init

pacman -Syu

pacman -S sudo screen

nano /etc/sudoers.d/myOverrides

add following

alarm ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

switch to user alarm:

su alarm

install packer for additional software down the road

sudo pacman -S packer

now lets install the desktop

sudo pacman -S xorg-server xf86-video-fbdev xorg-xrefresh

leave everything as default

XFCE4:

sudo pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies

now we need desktop manager:

sudo pacman -S sddm

we are going to load default configs with this command

sudo sh -c “sddm –example-config > /etc/sddm.conf”

autologin:

sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf

search and modify:

[autologin]
Session=xfce.desktop
User=alarm

custom theme i’m using

packer -S arc-gtk-theme

custom fonts

packer -S ttf-roboto

SDDM autostart:

sudo systemctl enable sddm

sudo systemctl start sddm

lets install a network manager so you can control your wifi or ethernet via gui

sudo pacman -Syu networkmanager network-manager-applet

sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager

sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

reboot

lets install the tools we need to compile bluetooth

sudo pacman -S make gcc git-core automake autoconf pkg-config libtool patch

packer -S yaourt blueman

yaourt -S pi-bluetooth

sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service

sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service

sudo systemctl enable brcm43438.service

sudo pacman -Syu pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth pavucontrol bluez bluez-libs bluez-utils bluez-firmware