My installation script for arch linux

Before the script starts, it asks for the following options for your installation:

• root password
• new user to add
• password for the new user
• bootmethod: UEFI
  • Currently only UEFI is supported using the systemd bootloader
• Select between laptop or desktop installation
  • There are some differences, like touchpad drivers or display brightness configuration for the laptop
• Root partition /dev/sdXY
• Selector for the windowmanager
  • Currently only i3 is supported The goal is to automatically install all needed packages and do all configuration to have a fully functional arch linux system running on your machine, ready to work with.

Clone this repo to your freshly installed arch You already need to be logged in via arch-chroot. Then simply call as root user

./install.sh

The locale configuration (language, keyboard layourt, ...) is currently hardcoded in the script and needs to be changed manually.

Current Settings

• German system language and locale
• US international keyboard layout
• Europe/Berlin as timezone

You can simply add/remove packages at the beginning of the script to the desired arrays.

The user is added to the following groups

wheel audio video input

The default shell is zsh.

Currently netctl is used to manage your network connections. The network devices (WiFi and Ethernet) are also hardcoded for both, laptop and desktop configurations.

For the laptop, the following special configuration is done

• Touchpad configuration for libinput
• Touchpad gestures using libinput-gestures
• udev and acpi rules for adjusting display brighness (intel-backlight driver is used)

Special configuration for the desktop

• Configure AMD graphics card fan speeds (using amdgpu-fan)
• Disable hardware speaker
• Fixes for audio noise

As AUR helper paru is installed.

Droidcam is installed using their installation instructions

• Get the latest droidcam.zip from their website
• Run the installation script (./install-client) To install video and dkms scripts a reboot is needed