If you want Arch but you don't wanna deal with CLI installation, about 18 months ago I found an easy way to achieve that. Nowadays I'm installing Arch with CLI (altough I haven't reinstalled it in over a year, so I've pretty much forgotten the whole procedure) but as someone who took a lot of practice with that, I can say CLI isn't for everyone and it can be extremely hard the first few times. So I decided to share with you my old way of installing Arch.
1. Visit https://www.arcolinux.info/downloads/ and scroll down a little until you see this image:
2. Decide which release you want and download it. Personally, I preferred ArcoLinux D.
3. Boot the ISO from any medium you prefer, like Ventoy, for instance.
4. Go through the advanced installation which gives you choices for desktops and other software. Throughout the choice you'll often see packages whose names start with "arcolinux-[name]-git". Don't bother to deselect them bc they'll be installed anyway, despite your desire to deselect them.
5. When you boot to your newly installed ArcoLinux, first change the repositories to match those of Arch, meaning no repository that has anything to do with Arco. Then change the mirrors as well. I'd recommend you to use a mirror that's located in your own country, or if such a mirror isn't available, use one from a country closest to yours.
6. Install any AUR package manager, I prefer trizen.
7. At this point, after you've changed repos and mirrors, I recommend you to reboot in order to force refresh both bc manual refreshing doesn't always work for a newly installed system.
8. Uninstall anything and everything that contains the name "arcolinux-". For your facilitation, I've put all the packages in a list:
Some of these packages are competely unnecessary, whereas others can simply be replaced by their precompiled binary counterparts from the official repositories, such as alacritty, neofetch, paru, sddm, systemd. But frankly speaking, I never replaced them with anything and yet the system has always worked just fine.
9. And finally, you need to edit one last file:
Replace "gedit" with your favorite text editor.
This file contains 4 lines, only two of which are important.
Change "DISTRIB_ID" to read "ArchLinux" and "DISTRIB_RELEASE" to read "rolling".
"DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION" can be any text you like, it's just a description and not important at all.
10. Reboot once again and you're done - you have pure Arch and no one will know it was something else, except for you.
After the reboot you can proceed to installing video drivers, if you haven't chosen them already during the Calamares installation.
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Basically my way was turning Arco into Arch bc Arco is the closest thing to Arch I've ever found, which makes it easier to change it back to Arch.
1. Visit https://www.arcolinux.info/downloads/ and scroll down a little until you see this image:
2. Decide which release you want and download it. Personally, I preferred ArcoLinux D.
3. Boot the ISO from any medium you prefer, like Ventoy, for instance.
4. Go through the advanced installation which gives you choices for desktops and other software. Throughout the choice you'll often see packages whose names start with "arcolinux-[name]-git". Don't bother to deselect them bc they'll be installed anyway, despite your desire to deselect them.
5. When you boot to your newly installed ArcoLinux, first change the repositories to match those of Arch, meaning no repository that has anything to do with Arco. Then change the mirrors as well. I'd recommend you to use a mirror that's located in your own country, or if such a mirror isn't available, use one from a country closest to yours.
6. Install any AUR package manager, I prefer trizen.
7. At this point, after you've changed repos and mirrors, I recommend you to reboot in order to force refresh both bc manual refreshing doesn't always work for a newly installed system.
8. Uninstall anything and everything that contains the name "arcolinux-". For your facilitation, I've put all the packages in a list:
Code:
sudo pacman -Rsn arcolinux-alacritty-git arcolinux-grub-theme-vimix-git arcolinux-keyring arcolinux-mirrorlist-git arcolinux-neofetch-git arcolinux-paru-git arcolinux-sddm-simplicity-git arcolinux-systemd-services-git arcolinux-wallpapers-git arcolinuxd-system-config-git arcolinuxd-welcome-app-gitSome of these packages are competely unnecessary, whereas others can simply be replaced by their precompiled binary counterparts from the official repositories, such as alacritty, neofetch, paru, sddm, systemd. But frankly speaking, I never replaced them with anything and yet the system has always worked just fine.
9. And finally, you need to edit one last file:
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/lsb-releaseThis file contains 4 lines, only two of which are important.
Code:
DISTRIB_ID="ArchLinux"
DISTRIB_RELEASE=rolling
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Arch Linux"Change "DISTRIB_ID" to read "ArchLinux" and "DISTRIB_RELEASE" to read "rolling".
"DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION" can be any text you like, it's just a description and not important at all.
10. Reboot once again and you're done - you have pure Arch and no one will know it was something else, except for you.
After the reboot you can proceed to installing video drivers, if you haven't chosen them already during the Calamares installation.
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Basically my way was turning Arco into Arch bc Arco is the closest thing to Arch I've ever found, which makes it easier to change it back to Arch.
