🍣 hrvdm's dot's

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🌿 Setup

1. Install Packages

Update sources:

sudo pacman -Syu

Install yay:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git && cd yay-bin && makepkg -si

Install packages:

sudo pacman -S --noconfirm hyprland xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland zsh kitty nodejs npm dunst pipewire wireplumber polkit polkit-kde-agent socat jq gnome-bluetooth-3.0 bluez bluez-utils dart-sass brightnessctl pacman-contrib cava slurp hyprsunset playerctl cliphist

yay -S rbenv wofi firefox discord ttf-iosevka-nerd noto-fonts-emoji ttf-jetbrains-mono ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols wl-clipboard hyprpicker-git visual-studio-code-bin hyprpaper hyprpolkitagent

Install oh-my-zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Install starship

curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh

(optional) Install nvm

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

If you do not install the optional packages, edit the .zshrc in this repos /home/.zshrc

Enable services:

sudo systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service --now

2. Clone & Move config

1. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/hrvdm/dots.git

   cd dots
   cp -r Wallpapers ../
   cd config && cp -r * ../../.config
   cd ../home && cp * ../../
   

2. Reboot: sudo reboot

⚙️ Extras

My Arch install guide

If you have not installed arch before, I recommend following the docs

I assume you already booted into the arch iso environment in UEFI mode.

Check UEFI & WiFi

• Check UEFI mode: ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

1. Connect to wifi with iwctl

• iwctl
• device list
• station {DEVICE} scan
• station {DEVICE} get-networks
• station {DEVICE} connect {SSID}

Disk setup with LVM on LUKS

Get available disks:
For me it is /dev/sda

• lsblk

Setup partitions:
For me it is fdisk /dev/sda:
If you get a warning like "Partition #X contains a vfat signature", press Y - This will overwrite your disk

• fdisk /dev/{DISK}

• Create empty GPT partition: g

• Create the EFI partition:

  n

  Partition Number: PRESS ENTER

  First Sector: PRESS ENTER

  Last sector: +100M

  t

  Type/Alias: uefi

• Create the boot partition:

  n

  Partition Number: PRESS ENTER

  First Sector: PRESS ENTER

  Last sector: +512M

  t

  If prompted, select partition 2

  Type/Alias: linux

• Create the LUKS partition:

  n

  Partition Number: PRESS ENTER

  First Sector: PRESS ENTER

  Last sector: PRESS ENTER

  t

  If prompted, select partition 3

  Type/Alias: linux

• Check setup: p

  This should print a table, the fields should be something like:

  Device	Size	Type
  /dev/sda1	100M	EFI System
  /dev/sda2	512M	Linux Filesystem
  /dev/sda3	930.9GB	Linux Filesystem

• Write changes to disk: w

• Format Partitions:

  Replace DISK-EFI and DISK-BOOT with your EFI and boot partitions.
  For me this is /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2

  mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/{DISK-EFI}

  mkfs.ext4 /dev/{DISK-BOOT}

• Setup encrypted partition:

  Replace DISK-LUKS with your LUKS partition.
  For me this is /dev/sda3

  cryptsetup --use-random luksFormat /dev/{DISK-LUKS}

  cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/{DISK-LUKS} cryptlvm

• Create LVM volume group:

  pvcreate /dev/mapper/cryptlvm

  vgcreate vg0 /dev/mapper/cryptlvm

• Create LVM partitions:

  lvcreate --size 34G vg0 --name swap (RAM Size + 2GB)

  lvcreate --size 100G vg0 --name root

  lvcreate -l +100%FREE vg0 --name home

• Format volumes:

  mkswap /dev/vg0/swap

  mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg0/root

  mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg0/home

• Mount filesystem:

  Replace DISK-EFI and DISK-BOOT with your EFI and boot partitions.
  For me this is /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2

  mount /dev/vg0/root /mnt

  mount --mkdir /dev/{DISK-EFI} /mnt/efi

  mount --mkdir /dev/{DISK-BOOT} /mnt/boot

  mount --mkdir /dev/vg0/home /mnt/home

  swapon /dev/vg0/swap

Pacstrap

Even if you do not plan to use vim, you need it for visudo. You can change this but it's easier to use vim for first install.

• Run pacstrap:

  pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-headers linux-firmware openssh git vim sudo nano networkmanager lvm2 reflector ufw base-devel rustup

Generate fstab

• genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Enter system

If this throws an error, you might have mistyped something.

• arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Setup system

• Timezone & Locale:

  If your not in london, use ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/ to get timezones.
  

  ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime

  hwclock --systohc

  cat /etc/locale.gen (You can | grep {REGION} i.e. | grep en_GB)

  echo "en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /etc/locale.gen

  locale-gen

  echo LANG={REGION} > /etc/locale.conf (Replace {REGION} with your's i.e. en_GB.UTF-8)

• Hostname:

  echo {YOUR-HOSTNAME} > /etc/hostname

• Create your user:

  useradd -m -G wheel --shell /bin/bash {USERNAME}

  passwd {USERNAME} (If you use special chars, you might want to check their expected keys first)

  visudo

  • Enter write mode with i.
  • Uncomment "%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL"
  • Press ESC to open command palette
  • Save and exit with :w then :qa.

• Configure mkinitcpio:

  nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

  • Add 'encrypt' and 'lvm2' to HOOKS before 'filesystems'

  mkinitcpio -P

• Setup grub:

  pacman -S grub efibootmgr

  If you error here, check your mount points

  grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB

  nano /etc/default/grub

  • Add (Change YOUR-LUKS): GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/{YOUR-LUKS}:cryptlvm root=/dev/vg0/root"

  grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

• Enable networkmanager:

  systemctl enable NetworkManager

• Exit & Reboot:

  exit

  umount -R /mnt

  swapoff -a

  reboot

We are done!

Get a kernel panic?

Reboot to the install USB, unlock cryptlvm and remount, then fix whatever error occured. Usually its a typo or missed step.

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/{DISK-LUKS} cryptlvm

lsblk

mount /dev/vg0/root /mnt
mount --mkdir /dev/{DISK-EFI} /mnt/efi
mount --mkdir /dev/{DISK-BOOT} /mnt/boot
mount --mkdir /dev/vg0/home /mnt/home
swapon /dev/vg0/swap

Configure via SSH

If you want to SSH to your system after arch is installed:

1. Make sure it has an IP
   • if not connect it: nmtui.
2. Start SSH daemon - sudo systemctl start sshd
3. Enable SSH daemon - sudo systemctl enable sshd
4. Enable UFW: sudo ufw enable
5. Allow SSH in UWF: sudo ufw allow 22/tcp
6. Grab your IP: ip a | grep "inet 192.168."

Remember to disable this post-install

Without ly DM

edit ~/.zlogin and add

# Start window manager
if [ -z $DISPLAY ] && [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ]; then
  exec Hyprland
fi

Remember to disable this post-install

Optimisations

Mirror list:

sudo pacman -S reflector
sudo nano /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf
sudo systemctl enable reflector.timer --now

Power for laptops:

sudo pacman -S thermald
yay -S auto-cpufreq
sudo systemctl enable thermald.service --now
sudo systemctl enable auto-cpufreq.service --now

SSD fstrim:

Arch SSD Docs

sudo systemctl enable fstrim.timer --now