artix

Fresh Artix installation from bootable media
Artix can either be installed through the console or the GUI installer. The GUI install is quite straightforward, we'll focus on the console installation procedure here. The installation media is confirmed to work on both BIOS and UEFI systems.

Partition your disk (BIOS)
Partition your hard drive (/dev/sda will be used in this guide) with fdisk or cfdisk, the partition numbers and order are at your discretion:

 cfdisk /dev/sda
If you want to install side-by-side with other operating systems, you must make some space on the disk by resizing the existing partitions. You may use gparted for this, however detailed instructions are out of the scope of this guide. Next, format the new partitions, for example as ext4:

 mkfs.ext4 -L ROOT /dev/sda2        <- root partition
 mkfs.ext4 -L HOME /dev/sda3        <- home partition, optional
 mkfs.ext4 -L BOOT /dev/sda4        <- boot partition, optional
 mkswap -L SWAP /dev/sda1           <- swap partition
The -L switch assigns labels to the partitions, which helps referring to them later through /dev/disk/by-label without having to remember their numbers. Now, mount your partitions:

 swapon /dev/sda1
 mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
 mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/home  (if created)
 mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/boot  (if created)
Install base system
A working internet connection is required and assumed. A wired connection is setup automatically, if found. Wireless ones must be configured by the user. Verify your connection and update the repositories:

 ping artixlinux.org
 pacman -Syy
Use basestrap to install the base and optionally the base-devel package groups and your preferred init (currently available: openrc and runit):

 basestrap /mnt base base-devel openrc
or

 basestrap /mnt base base-devel runit
Use fstabgen to generate /etc/fstab, use -U for UUIDs and -L for partition labels:

 fstabgen -L /mnt >>/mnt/etc/fstab
Check the resulting fstab for errors before rebooting. Now, you can chroot into your new Artix system with:

 artools-chroot /mnt
Configure the base system
First, install grub and os-prober (for detecting other installed operating systems):

 pacman -S grub os-prober
# grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub (for UEFI systems)
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp_mount --bootloader-id=grub (ditto, a user reported success with this one)
 grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Create a user and password:


Set the time zone:

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# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime
Run hwclock(8) to generate /etc/adjtime:

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# hwclock --systohc
This command assumes the hardware clock is set to UTC. See Time#Time standard for details.

Locale

Uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and other needed localizations in /etc/locale.gen, and generate them with:

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# locale-gen
Set the LANG variable in locale.conf(5) accordingly, for example:

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#/etc/locale.conf

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
If you set the keyboard layout, make the changes persistent in /etc/conf.d/keymaps:

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#/etc/conf.d/keymaps

keymap="de-latin1"
Hostname

Add the hostname to /etc/conf.d/hostname:

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#/etc/conf.d/hostname
hostname="myhostname"
Consider adding a matching entry to hosts(5):

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#/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.1.1 myhostname.localdomain myhostname



 useradd -m -g users -G adm,lp,wheel,power,audio,video -s /bin/bash user
 passwd user
Set root password:

 passwd
Install networkmanager:

 pacman -S networkmanager networkmanager-openrc network-manager-applet
 rc-update add NetworkManager default
Alternatively Gentoo's netifrc modules can be used, these are located in /etc/init.d/ and work on a script-per-interface basis.

 ip -s link                 <- Get the exact name of your interface
 nano /etc/conf.d/net       <- Add config_<interface>="dhcp"
Now the parent script /etc/init.d/net.lo should be symlinked to create additional scripts for each network interface and then loaded into an openrc runlevel.

 ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.<interface>
 rc-update add net.<interface> default
Generate locales:

 nano /etc/locale.gen  <- uncomment your locale
 locale-gen
To set the locale systemwide, edit /etc/locale.conf (which is sourced by /etc/profile) or /etc/bash/bashrc.d/artix.bashrc or /etc/bash/bashrc.d/local.bashrc; user-specific changes may be made to their respective ~/.bashrc, for example:

 export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
 export LC_COLLATE="C"
Post installation configuration
Now, you can reboot and enter into your new installation:

 exit   <- exit chroot environment
 umount -R /mnt
 reboot
Once shutdown is complete, remove your installation media. If all went well, you should boot into your new system. Log in as your root to complete the post-installation configuration. To get a graphical environment you need to install the xorg group:

 pacman -S xorg
Choose your packages, or just install all of them. For the closed-source nvidia drivers you can use the nvidia-lts package, as our default kernel is linux-lts:

 pacman -S nvidia-lts
Older nvidia cards work with the legacy series, nvidia-340xx-lts and nvidia-304xx-lts. If you want to run a custom kernel, you can install the respective nvidia dkms package which ensures all installed kernels get their nvidia modules. AMD and Intel cards enjoy excellent (or near-excellent) 3D support with open-source drivers. Read the Arch wiki, for information on how Xorg chooses the best available video driver and which one is optimal for your hardware.

Install a desktop environment, for example MATE, LXQt or XFCE4:

 pacman -S mate mate-extra xfce4 xfce4-goodies lxqt
And optionally a display manager, like LXDM or SDDM:

 pacman -S lxdm displaymanager-openrc
 rc-update add xdm default
 nano /etc/conf.d/xdm   <- edit and set DISPLAYMANAGER="lxdm"