Great 3 part tutorial. I think I'm ready to try and install this distro on my new build :) Got through all three videos and wasn't completely confused! Good job!

Awesome tutorial , really appreciate it. However I seem to get stuck at the boot up of arch. But not always weirdly enough. I googled it and nothing helped. Any ideas?

[ 2016-02-25 17:25:44Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll nothing shows up as an error, really weird. Second time installing, will trie a third time. Thank you for your attention

[ 2016-02-25 16:15:15Z ] 👍 0

boot from the usb device, then chroot into your main drive, and check journalctl for any red lines. it should tell you whats stopping it from booting

[ 2016-02-25 16:13:34Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll nope, it just freezes and doesn't give the time to even show an error message. I am on a thinkpad x220 btw

[ 2016-02-25 02:02:59Z ] 👍 0

+Aksel Durand Is it freezing when trying to launch gnome/x server? can you at least get to the login screen?

[ 2016-02-25 00:11:06Z ] 👍 0

after I installed gnome sorry forogt to add

Me again.... I typoed the xorg network symlink command from the last part, where I created the link I wrote "servuce" instead of "service" and I think that's what's preventing me from booting. When I boot into arch everything seems to be going fine then it hangs on "Started User Manager for UID 120...ID 0" and keeps on trying to do Start User Manager over and over, then it hangs infinitely on "Reach target Graphical Interface.4s0.servuce.devices-enp4s0.servuce.device". I'm assuming my typo is what's stopping the system from booting properly? If yes, how do I edit that typo? I tried in UEFI root "nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" but it was blank (I had mounted the partitions properly) Edit- I rebooted into UEFI and tried "startx" and it returns something along the lines of a network error, saying "Server terminated with error (1)" with lines below that reading "xinit: giving up" "xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused" "xinit: server error"

[ 2016-03-05 23:17:34Z ] 👍 0

boot into usb again, mount the drives again, arch-chroot again, then type: sudo systemctl disable dhcpcd@enp4s0.servuce then  sudo systemctl enable dhcpcd@enp4s0.service

[ 2016-03-05 22:28:54Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll You can see it at the bottom there in the picture: "Interface.4s0.SERVUCE" should have been .SERVICE not .servuce like it is now

[ 2016-03-05 20:51:08Z ] 👍 0

I need to know what line you mistyped. 

[ 2016-03-05 18:58:18Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll Here's the startup screen, the final line is where it hangs infinitely: http://imgur.com/f1a9doP I should also tell you I have a 980 (non-TI) but it never hung on load because of UeventTrigger like it did for you so I skipped the nvidialib installs, maybe that could be causing it as well?

[ 2016-03-05 09:57:42Z ] 👍 0

+ilmachia i think you're saying you went to enable the network dhcpcd service (dhcpcd@enp4s0.service) but typed it wrong? X (xorg-server) is the name of the desktop display server, which is completeley different from dhcpcd so in particular I need to know the exact line you typed wrong. either way, you will again have to boot into USB, mount the partitions, then arch-chroot /mnt once there we can begin to correct the typo. If you chroot in, you can usually press the arrow up key to see your previous commands (even if you reboot)

Hey! I'm here again with a problem: i cant install yaourt: sudo pacman -S yaourt and error: target not found: yaourt

[ 2016-03-07 20:01:47Z ] 👍 0

+Ghar Thausz ahhhh yeah for laptop you will first need intel drivers, and i believe bumblebee, however I have not installed nvidia and intel on a laptop so you may need to refer to the arch wiki to do so: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bumblebee

[ 2016-03-07 19:46:24Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll No, have only an Acer laptop with i7mq and nvidia geforce 940m now i'm installing some intel video driver(I typed in : lspci -v | grep -i graphic ) but some errors showed up .. and it wrote intel... http://postimg.org/image/e3ve7hax7/

[ 2016-03-07 19:43:26Z ] 👍 0

do you use double monitors? if so unplug one monitor and try. sometimes gnome can be stupid.

[ 2016-03-07 19:28:34Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll So i used sudo pacman -S gnome-software everything ok except it wrote again with libraries with nvidia i made a reboot and: http://postimg.org/image/sne46fotd/

[ 2016-03-07 19:01:05Z ] 👍 0

+Ghar Thausz if you are on raspberry pi or some other ARM you must use packer instead of yaourt, as yaourt is not available for the ARM build of arch. As I said this guide is really not meant for ARM installation as some things are quite different/not available.

Thank you so much man! You're the main reason Arch works for me. I have an intel processor and two 970's, and no one else went over exactly what to do with them. Thanks!! :)

Thank you very much for this guide. You're awesome! Just a little problem I had and that could help someone. On the final reboot I got a "Something has gone wrong" at login. I solved installing bumblebee (removing nvidia-liblg). This happened on a HP Envy 15, Intel + nvidia 740m

[ 2016-05-22 06:40:58Z ] 👍 0

Yoshimitsu Kush​ Hi, to remove a single package use pacman -R . If you want to remove its dependencies too use something like pacman -Rdsu . Make sure to read the man pacman. It has lots of useful features.

[ 2016-05-22 05:56:50Z ] 👍 0

how do you remove nvidia lilb I can't find a ducking answer holy shit

oh no was doing good then got a few errors while trying to install gnome. error retrieving file 'libvs 1.6.1-1-x86_64.pakg.tar.xz and 'python-pyparsing-2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz requested url error 404 is there a different desktop i can use instead?

[ 2016-03-27 21:32:47Z ] 👍 0

thank you.

[ 2016-03-27 18:50:12Z ] 👍 0

+dsniper02 you should just be able to re-type the command: sudo pacman -S gnome gnome-extra you don't need gnome-software from yaourt I personally use LXDE with some simple visual customizations since lxde default look is butt ugly, but you should still install gnome first as it tends to install a lot of dependencies other programs rely on

Hi I followed the guide and on the final reboot I get a grey screen that says Oh No! something went wrong A problem has occured and the system cant recover. Any Tips ?

[ 2016-04-01 17:31:15Z ] 👍 1

+Nat B sounds like you have display driver issues. are you on a desktop or laptop? do you have amd/nvidia/intel or in the case of a laptop dual intel/nvidia or amd?

First of all, you did a great guide on installing Arch, it really helped me out a lot and I wanted to thank you for that But when I tested if the xorg-stuff worked with "startx" like you did an error kept popping up, which said something like "radeon 0000:01:00.0 vce init error" I googled it already, but nobody really seemed to have solved this problem yet

[ 2016-04-15 07:00:37Z ] 👍 0

+Seyshiro Aoyagi judging by "radeon" it seems to be an issue with your graphics card drivers. Unfortunately I do not own any amd cards and do not have experience using their drivers. You may want to try the Arch forums

i have a network adapter its work throughout all the guide but i cant get it to ping, unless im in root with the usb after i reboot i cant connect with wifi-menu

[ 2016-07-26 20:02:49Z ] 👍 0

You'll need to install the dialogue, iw, and wpa_supplicant packages to use WiFi menu

you are the best! awesome guide. i installed them 1st try! :D

Does the Nouveau problem affect just the 980 or do all GeForce 900 Series cards have this? I want to put Linux back on my desktop, and I'd even like to try Arch, but this is all a little over my comfort level.

Hay! Great job on creating this awesome guide. I followed you step by step and everything worked fine until I got to the login screen: When I try to login (with the right pw) I just get back to the login screen. I researched the problem and most people say it has something to do with .Xauthority, but I was not able to fix it. Do you have any ideas on how to solve this problem?

[ 2016-05-03 16:20:48Z ] 👍 0

+lBlackBirdl sorry i've never come across this issue, you may be better off checking the arch forums

For all users, who do not have an Ethernet Port, eg. on your Laptop... install wpa_actiond for auto wireless connection. It's a dependency for netctl though...

Very useful videos, i'm suprised that you don't have many subscribers. finally got arch running with xfce and full palm rejection support with libinput on my cheap laptop, acer e3-112, upgraded with a 120gb 840 evo, 8gb ram and a sony 7260 ac wireless card.

thank you for this awesome guide, I had a couple issues with Windows recovery to figure out, but other than that your videos help a LOT. I'm subscribing

Hi buddy, i'm having a little issue (following your steps): At login, if i try to log as normal user, it login succesfuly but loop again into login :( If i try to log as root, it works, but display sets blank and nothing happen :( Any suggestion? Btw, thanks for this tutorial, really useful :) PD : If i command "startx" display gets blank too

Thank you. This is the only "non-VM" Arch installation I have found. Now, I understand gpt partitions better. Nevertheless . . . you said, during the first demo that you were going to enlarge the text. You did not!!! I have spent all that time cursing you. It's not until the third part that you finally enlarge the text . . . but only enough to show me how much better your first two parts would have been. Your presentation is long enough. Please leave all the digressions for another Demo. Thank you for all the knowledge you have shared with me. In the future please remember that most of your followers wear glasses and have small screens. Good luck to you.

[ 2016-07-27 07:54:18Z ] 👍 0

I actually came from the 2015 tutorials after finding theres newer ones. I clicked on these like 'DAMN IT! THE TEXT IS EVEN SMALLER!' then saw the bar on video 2

Thanks a lot, following your guide step by step I was able to make my first fresh arch Linux install. Now, what about going further? And make a video on a cool customisation of the gnome shell environment? Adding effects, adding useful tweaks and changing icon style? Thank you again, I have really appreciated your work :)

instead of needing to boot back into the USB for internet, you need to make sure your system service is up. from a clean install: sudo ip link set "device name" up sudo systemctl enable dhcpcd@"device name".service sudo systemctl start dhcpcd@"devicename".service will also work without a reboot

[ 2016-06-06 16:03:41Z ] 👍 0

I did a seperate video regarding networking and wifi that I just havent linked,, thanks for the input though

Hey there, have followed tutorial several times, yet for some reason on my laptop i get a white screen when booting into gnome saying "Oh no something has gone wrong, a problem has occured and the system cant recover, please log out and try again. Really need this to work on this machine please advise

hey man, really enjoyed your guide! I have a little question, is it possible for you to do a guide including encryption (maybe with lvm)? I tried to install an encrypted Arch combining your guide with the additional steps but I'm struggling like hell. maybe for a 2017 update or something like that? cheers

Great Guide! Took me awhile to get it all set up but even for a linux noob, I was able to get it all up and running with the help of this guide

Warning to all those who have intel/nvida hybrid cards , especially those with out the bios option of discrete GPU disable // First make sure you have both the nvidia packages and the : xf86-video-intel xf86-video-vesa // you need to write out a xorg.conf manually , the nvidia-xconfig and X -configure will garble the selection , you need to do this now before installing either gdm or lightdm and possibly the other Display managers , you can still ~$startxfce4 with afresh xfce4 environment // They have advice on how to write one here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus make sure you format the BUSID for each card correctly using ~$ lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D" to find out what they are // Example xorg.conf for a laptop will look like this for the updated xserver Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout" Screen 0 "nvidia" Inactive "intel" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "intel" Driver "modesetting" BusID "PCI:0@0:2:0" # this busid might be different on pci load order Option "AccelMethod" "None" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "intel" Device "intel" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "nvidia" Driver "nvidia" BusID "PCI:2@0:0:0" # This busid might be different on pci load order Option "ConstrainCursor" "off" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "nvidia" Device "nvidia" Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "on" Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "CRT" # This option of Monitor plugin might be different EndSection // Hope this helps those looking for how to install : Spent a good half a day trying most of the options // Thankyou for helping me with this guide //

Thank you

Thanks for these great videos again, but I am having a issue at start up, "a start job is running for sys-subsystem-net-devices-enp0s25.ser.device(**s / 1min 30s) " is there any link you can send that has some details about this....... Or is this just a backdoor thing??

hey friends! i accidentaly add a incorrect dhcpcd service and in the boot of system is loding it after 1:30 mins of load of the incorrect service... I already add the correct service, but the incorrect is here. How i can delete de incorrect service? :v

[ 2016-09-06 11:10:32Z ] 👍 0

so did I. there were listed 2.. his device name was enp4s0... in my case there were 2 wIp2s0 and enp3s0... so I got confused 😕.. setup 2 wrong devices

thank you very much

what if I have different graphic card like ATI Radeon.. should I have still to install Mesa?

[ 2016-09-08 18:08:55Z ] 👍 0

Yes. On ATi/AMD cards you should install Mesa, not their proprietary drivers.

can you make a quick tutorial on how to add a grub screen on boot up for dual boot please?

You can leave out the .service in most systemctl commands :P For example: sudo systemctl enable gdm

Tnx u mate! This work fine for me!!!

great video! Rly helped me :)

Hi thanks a lot for your video series, very good for jumping from other distros into Arch. I am trying to install in a hybrid graphics laptop with no luck yet. I can not get pass the booting process until it reaches the target 'Graphial user interface' and it goes to a gnome error screen error 'Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again.' If I generate the xorg.conf using nvidia-xconfig tool is even worse, it renders unsuable even a tty. I'll try to follow the steps suggested here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus Have you ever ran into such issues? Any ideas?

[ 2018-09-09 15:48:26Z ] 👍 0

Daniel Restrepo checkout nvidia-xrun. It is relatively fast, simple and being actively maintained. If you get stuck at graphical target then while booting with grub press e where arch linux is highlighted and append this to end of the linux .... line. systemd.unit=multi-user.target. Then you will enter in non graphical command line mode. From there you can debug, start lightdm, startx or whatever you use.

[ 2016-10-28 16:13:07Z ] 👍 0

GloriousEggroll Well yes, but I had a look at the project in GitHub and it seems to be dead since 2013, so not sure if its worth the try. Thanks

[ 2016-10-28 16:01:18Z ] 👍 1

if you are using hybrid graphics with a discrete nvidia card and intel card, you may need to install/configure bumblebee: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee

HI! I have this problem with the efivars when I try to mount them: input: # mount -t efivars efivars /sys/firmware/efi/efivars output: mount: unknown filesystem type 'efivars' any idea what could've gone wrong? thanks!

[ 2018-11-13 13:37:27Z ] 👍 0

There is an f missing from the first two, they are efivarfs # mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars I know it's two years later now, but this could be useful for someone with the same problem :)

Success! Your's is the only video guide that's worked for me. Big Props.

thanks man, pretty helpful tutorial.

hey im having some issues when i'm trying to boot into the gnome GUI, it starts the booting process and stops at [ ok ] Reached target Graphical Interface. it then stops completely i can type but its a massive delay and i cannot issue commands. i may think it's a issue with the systemctl enable gdm.service command when i issue it i don't get a respons it just jump direclty to the next line, any tips? :)

Someone with your level of knowlege needs to edit the arch-wiki and turn it into useful information. In its current form the arch-wiki is quite useless, especially its install guide. This is worsened by the fact that it is the first recource google turns up. As a first time installer myself I was met with overly vague, underly verbose and often outdated information.

would like to add an addition note as of new update gnome 3.22 went to wayland and does not support nvidia drivers to fix this type in terminal nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf in there uncoment the wayland enable=false (what this will do is force it to run on xorg instead) hope this helps for anyone having troubles

Thanks a lot, your guide is very complete and usefull :)

Dammit, I can't get it to boot from the USB anymore now, so i can't continue with the steps

Just used it on Arch 2017-02-01 and everything (that I did not brake after) is ok and works as does the NetworkManager tutorial. Thank you

These video's came out perfectly on the day I want to install Arch again. Thanks do much!

enabling dhcpcd@wlo1.service breaks my connection, conflicts with netctl stuffs

[ 2017-03-06 07:03:55Z ] 👍 1

dhcpcd is for wired connections, wlo1 is a wireless device. wireless connections are configured differently. first disable dhcpcd@wlo1 then: https://www.gloriouseggroll.tv/142-2/

Thanks, any idea though why gnome-terminal won't start up? edit: got it. I had to set the system language in the system settings

I am unable to write to my home directory. I have tried mounting and using chown but I don't know enough about what I am doing so it hasn't worked. Any help?

Awesome videos! thanks! ... but I'm still having some issues... 1) When I'm in the login screen on Gnome and I put my password nothing happens, but if I put the wrong password a message tells me that it's wrong 2) The mouse(Touchpad) gets useless after 10 seconds in this login screen Hope you can help me! thanks

hmm i dunno why but when I start up the system after I installed gnome, I end up at the terminal login and when I try startx, I come into this shitty gui which only has a white terminal. I tried reinstalling gnome and removing twm but it didnt work. Yesterday it worked fine but i dunno what i did different this time. Too bad I already screwed up the install I setup yesterday.

[ 2017-03-27 02:02:52Z ] 👍 1

startx starts the x server, if you see it it just means X works properly. you can type exit into the white terminal to exit our of x server afterwards it sounds like you didnt enable the display manager(gdm, kdm, lightdm), make sure one is installed, (ie sudo pacman -S gdm) then try sudo systemctl enable gdm then reboot. if it fails to load ctrl+alt +f2 to drop to tty console

thanks a lot dude, just got it installed in my laptop!

Thanks! Very helpful video. I wish the CLI font was bigger as default.

What's the best way to change your file manager? I would like to use Nemo as opposed to Nautilus in GNOME. Thanks in advance :)

xorg-server-utils was removed in may, replace with xorg-apps

I'm trying to install however now when I'm trying to install the x applications I get an error saying that partition too full. I have followed all the steps you have done and this is the first error message which you have not gotten.

I have Gloriously eggrolled back 6 times to install it right for the 1st time, and i just migrated from windows to linux in about a week, and installing this distro is like a victory never tasted better. Tiz all thanks to you m8, ty 4 da guide :)

I prefer pacaur in place of yaourt. Has all the features and more.

This was a really great series. Thank you for taking the time to do it!

What should I do if I wanted to get rid of all packages that are installed in this video? I'm trying to use pacman -Rs but it's bugging me with breaking dependences ._.