Notes on installing various Archlinux packages. This way I won’t forget what I did if something breaks and I have to reinstall something.
Configuration
If ethernet is not working, do ip a to see listed network devices. Mine shows ens9 as my
thunderbolt ethernet. To start ethernet run dhcpcd ens9. Test if it worked by ping -c3 www.google.com
sources:
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156427
- https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-list-network-cards-command/
Install the yaourt package manager
OS Components
gnome-settings-daemon
I’m not entirely sure what all this is doing. I need to find some docs and read more about what it adds. It does allow the Emacs Gtk+ theme to work so I can use ctrl-w and ctrl-h in the browser without closing tabs and opening history. Might be overkill for that single use, so I need to figure out what else it’s doing and see if I want those things.
yaourt gnome-settings-daemon
Notifications Daemon
yaourt dunst-git
WiFi
# Packages
sudo pacman -S wireless_tools
# Install the package
yaourt broadcom-wl
# Load the kernel module
sudo modprobe wl
sudo depmod -a
Fonts
https://www.techrapid.co.uk/linux/arch-linux/improve-font-rendering-on-arch-linux/
yaourt ttf-mac-fonts
Touchpad
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBookPro11,x#Touchpad https://medium.com/@philpl/arch-linux-running-on-my-macbook-2ea525ebefe3#.u5cdphtsp
yaourt -S xf86-input-mtrack-git
sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-mtrack.conf
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-mtrack.conf
Section "InputClass"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Identifier "Touchpads"
Driver "mtrack"
Option "Sensitivity" "0.64"
Option "FingerHigh" "5"
Option "FingerLow" "2"
Option "IgnoreThumb" "true"
Option "IgnorePalm" "true"
Option "DisableOnPalm" "true"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "3"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
Option "TapButton4" "0"
Option "ClickFinger1" "1"
Option "ClickFinger2" "2"
Option "ClickFinger3" "2"
Option "ButtonMoveEmulate" "false"
Option "ButtonIntegrated" "true"
# Option "ClickTime" "25"
Option "BottomEdge" "30"
Option "SwipeLeftButton" "8"
Option "SwipeRightButton" "9"
Option "SwipeUpButton" "0"
Option "SwipeDownButton" "0"
# Option "ScrollDistance" "75"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "-90"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "-90"
## Natural Scrolling
Option "ScrollUpButton" "5"
Option "ScrollDownButton" "4"
Option "ScrollLeftButton" "7"
Option "ScrollRightButton" "6"
EndSection
# Add yourself to the users group
sudo gpasswd -a tuxinator input
# Use natural scrolling
echo "pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12" >> ~/.Xmodmap
Power Settings
Powertop for watching power usage of various components. It has some tuning features, but I’m currently not using them.
sudo pacman -S powertop
TLP for system wide power management. TLP config is stored in /etc/default/tlp.
Use CPU Frequency Scaling (cpupower) to slow down processors when the macbook is getting to warm. Use and configure mbpfan-git to fine tune the Macbook Pro fans and keep CPU temps reasonable.
Arch wiki power management resources:
- General: Power Management
- Laptop Specific: Laptop
- Macbook Specific: Macbook 11,x#Powersave
Keyboard Backlight
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook#Keyboard_Backlight
Backlight
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBookPro11,x#Screen_backlight
File Managers
Nautilus (Gnome gui file manager)
sudo pacman -S nautilus
Ranger (Command line file manager)
sudo pacman -S ranger
Linux Monitoring Sensors
sudo pacman -S lm_sensors
# View temperatures
sensors
Appearance
lxappearance
Manage gtk themes
sudo pacman -S lxappearance
Lemonbar
Slick status bar
yaourt lemonbar-git
# Battery stats
sudo pacman -S acpi
Applications
Zsh
sudo pacman -S zsh # Install zsh shell
sudo chsh -s $(which zsh)
NVM
https://github.com/creationix/nvm
Element
https://github.com/callahanrts/element
Ag
sudo pacman -S silver-searcher-git
i3
sudo pacman -S dmenu rofi xdotool alsa-utils xbindkeys gnome-terminal conky feh cmake htop upower
# Backlight
yaourt light-git compton-git
Rofi
Rofi config is in Xresources
Redis
yaourt -S redis
Docker
https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/archlinux/
At work, many people use mac with docker. For docker to run on a mac, it needs to run a vm. In our case, the vm has an IP of 192.168.99.100. Since our configs, namely database.yml, have this hardcoded into them, we need to find a way to reroute this ip to localhost on linux.
Get ifconfig if it doesn’t exist already:
sudo pacman -S net-tools
https://superuser.com/questions/572077/redirect-some-ip-to-localhost
# Add this to your startup script:
sudo ifconfig lo:1 inet 192.168.99.100 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
# Check if it's working
ping -c3 192.168.99.100
# Output
#
# PING 192.168.99.100 (192.168.99.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
# 64 bytes from 192.168.99.100: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.031 ms
# 64 bytes from 192.168.99.100: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.028 ms
# 64 bytes from 192.168.99.100: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.029 ms
#
# --- 192.168.99.100 ping statistics ---
# 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
# rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.028/0.029/0.031/0.004 ms
MySQL
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MySQL
# Install mariadb
sudo pacman -S mariadb
sudo mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
# Enable the service to start at runtime and start it now.
sudo systemctl enable mysqld
sudo systemctl start mysqld
Sequel Pro like gui for managing mysql databases on linux MySQL Workbench
sudo pacman -S mysql-workbench
Spotify
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/spotify
# Spotify Beta seems to work best with hidpi for me
yaourt -S spotify-beta
# HiDPI mode
spotify --force-device-scale-factor=1.8
RVM
Had to do the open_ssl fix at the bottom here. Some were also saying there was a readline issue.
Try doing the rvm pkg install readline and install with the --with-readline-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr
as well as --with-openssl-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RVM#Installing_RVM
tmux
sudo pacman -S tmux
Assorted packages
sudo pacman -S imagemagick # image manipulation
Last Pass
yaourt lastpass-cli