How to install Arch EZly

a piece of heart words

Hi everyone, me again

You know, let me say something…. These days Iran is not in a great situation, we feel bad and this is getting even worse everyday…. I cant do any MASSIVE activity for my country and people.

Maybe, this blog, or spread my knowledge here is a small thing helping me calm down. Its really stressful, I dont know what comes next, Russia warns about something comming in future and what happening to world, meanwhile struggling with what happening in my country….. its not easy 😞

My background about Linux

I installed Linux first in 2014 when I was 16, and like lots of other beginners, I started with Ubuntu.

That journey took a short time and I uninstalled Ubuntu in a short time because I didnt know a lot about Linux and I was alone in “Linux World”!

But it wasn’t last time.

Two years later, in 2016 and during my konkur-prepration, I installed Ubuntu again and with better experience, this try lasted several months.

Then, I came back to Linux in 2018 and again Ubuntu but this time a little different.

My English learning journey hit somewhere that I could communicate with foriegners and ask my questions and on the other hand, I knew how to solve my problems in Linux and read documents….. It was delicious.

I had used to use Ubuntu for 2 years and I have to admit that these year’s was the latest two greatest years of Ubuntu and Ubuntu 20.04 was the latest good Ubuntu LTS release.

Then, during a Coronavirus panic, I tried a new distro which changed the game:

**ARCH Linux**

Not another “I use Arch, BTW” but I have to admit Arch is great. In my opinion, The best advantage of Arch is AUR (Arch User Repository); a place for community-driven Build-process-introduction-scripting which help you install a huge amount of software which are not available in official repository (better say, “build-introduction-script” instead of “install”)

If you like playing with your system, make some headache (maybe twice a year- more or less), Arch is your choice.

Why Arch

Its my third year using Arch linux constantly and I’m happy with that

Before Arch, I used Debian for one year and I have to admit that Debian is extremely great and stable but, Its like a grandfather in linux community.

Believe me or not, Its really great for grandpas, not for me, highly motive-based person.

Arch, on the other hand, has some advantages:

• AUR → Arch User Repository — I really like this part
• bleeding edge → its kinda disadvantage sometimes 😅

Being bleeding edge is sometimes good and sometimes bad….. new update can break you system but you get the latest updates.

☝️ I have a self-made methodology to prevent this break-probability → check out here - click

Install Arch the EZ-way

You will understand why I use “EZ”

prepare

1. Download an Arch based distribution
   1. EndeavorOS (Tested ✅)
   2. ArcoLinux
   3. ArchLab
   4. EZArch

2. Bootable you usb drive and plug it to your system and boot into your USB drive (Bootabled linux)😐

   Ok, you have a desktop environment and its great

   Here is were we change our way to pure arch 😊

Follow and install

Connect to the internet and go to one of these links and download proper files (on usb-booted-linux):

1. https://osdn.net/projects/ezarch/
   • (from Tabs) Files → Guides → Download the proper .txt file
2. https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezarch/files/
   1. (section) Download → ezarch Project Files → Guides-2022xxxx.tar (all of .txt files will be downloaded)
3. Split your Desktop
   1. Terminal
   2. a text editor with downloaded .txt file open
4. Follow the instracture

⚠️ There is something wrong in the instructure:

if you want to install linux-lts you have to install r8168-lts in Networking section in .txt file

Prevent breaking (self-made method)

• install linux-lts → linux Long-Term-Support kernel
• Try to check updates everyday, and keep track of important updates.
  • for important package, ignore new updates
    • wait several days, then update those ignored packages
    • In most cases, after several days, a new patch will be added to some packages, like :
      • 1.2.3-1 → 1.2.3-2 maybe a patch for Arch
      • 1.2.4-1 → 1.2.5-1maybe an upstream bug is resolved
    • In both cases, its better to wait to get a more stable version
• Try not to tweaks internal things very much