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Below described installation process for a new system. Instructions given suppose no systemd, focus on OpenRC and rely on chezmoi. Targeting Artix or secondly Gentoo

First install the system:

Artix

Follow https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Installation

Wi-Fi

Note that artix-live will have NetworkManager running. You can see in rc-status. So you might want to use on Wi-Fi:

nmcli dev wifi list
nmcli dev wifi connect "name" password "pass"
# or better
nmcli dev wifi connect "name" --ask

So no /etc/wpa_supplicant/ required like you could use with netifrc. And you don't need to install dhcpcd or wpa_supplicant with NetworkManager too

See connections: /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/

Applicable for Gentoo net-misc/networkmanager

Ntpd

chrony must be already running

Hostname

Please set reasonable /etc/hostname or you will need later:

rm -rf ~/.config/chromium/Singleton*

It will help you to use Deskflow

NetworkManager

So if you chose it then inside the chroot install it:

pacman -S networkmanager-openrc
rc-update add NetworkManager default

Then out of the chroot you can reuse connection:

cp /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/* /mnt/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/

Note that Gentoo can have different interface-name when Artix -> Gentoo chroot installing

SSH

You can install sshd to continue from another machine after reboot:

pacman -S openssh-openrc
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
rc-update add sshd default
rc-service sshd start

From second machine: ssh-copy-id hostname

Sudoers

You might want to run visudo

Add groups if needed: usermod -aG wheel <user>

Gentoo

Follow the handbook: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64

You can chroot from Artix. Refer to Artix NetworkManager section

If you corrupted UEFI

Acer

  • Turn off your laptop
  • Hold down the Fn key and the Left Alt key simultaneously
  • While keeping them held down, press the Power button once
  • The moment the Acer logo flashes, start smashing the F2 key (or F12).

You might want Main/F12 Boot Menu/[Enabled]

Or

  • Flip the laptop and hold paperclip in a pinhole with a battery icon for 15-30 seconds, or more than 30 seconds
  • Wait for 5 minutes to remove residual energy

Install some packages

Artix

Add needed groups:

usermod -aG video $USER
usermod -aG audio $USER

Intel

Check docs: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel

sudo pacman -S intel-media-driver vulkan-intel
# old hardware
sudo pacman -S libva-intel-driver
sudo pacman -S xf86-video-intel
sudo pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev
sudo pacman -S intel-compute-runtime
# fonts. You may want for PS1 return icons. And the last is needed for polybar
sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji noto-fonts-cjk otf-comicshanns-nerd
sudo pacman -S git figlet fortune-mod bash-completion jq yazi ncdu ouch w3m imagemagick rsync fzf
# xorg. Includes i3 keybinds. acpilight -> xbacklight but not xrandr
sudo pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit i3-wm polybar rofi picom feh scrot xdotool kitty xclip gvim acpilight playerctl xsettingsd xorg-xev
# web browser
sudo pacman -S ungoogled-chromium
# or
sudo pacman -S chromium
# other utils
sudo pacman -S graphviz tmux perl-image-exiftool
# video player
vlc vlc-plugin-x264 vlc-plugin-ffmpeg
# video recording
sudo pacman -S obs-studio
# video editing
sudo pacman -S kdenlive
# might be too old. Replace
sudo pacman -S net-tools
# localization
sudo pacman -S hunspell-en_us hunspell-ru

# java runtime
sudo pacman -S jre-openjdk
# vim COC bash
sudo pacman -S shellcheck-bin

Power profiles

sudo pacman -S python-gobject
sudo pacman -S power-profiles-daemon-openrc
sudo rc-update add power-profiles-daemon default
sudo rc-service power-profiles-daemon start
powerprofilesctl list
powerprofilesctl set power-saver

Might be good for AMD to use amd-pstate-ut

Sound

sudo pacman -S pipewire-openrc pipewire-pulse-openrc wireplumber-openrc bluez-openrc bluez-utils sof-firmware pavucontrol
sudo rc-update add bluetoothd default
sudo rc-service bluetoothd start

# user services. No sudo
rc-update add -U pipewire default
rc-update add -U pipewire-pulse default
rc-update add -U wireplumber default
rc-service --user wireplumber start
# rc-service --user pipewire start
rc-service --user pipewire-pulse start
rc-status -U
pactl list sinks

Rust

sudo pacman -S rustup
rustup default stable

Cargo

cargo install gitui --locked

Go

sudo pacman -S go
go install github.com/charmbracelet/glow/v2@latest
# extra/shfmt. For vim ALE bash
go install mvdan.cc/sh/v3/cmd/shfmt@latest

C/C++

Artix

sudo pacman -S make cmake cppcheck astyle

Gentoo

sudo emerge --ask --quiet --verbose dev-util/cppcheck dev-util/astyle

Python

Artix

# openblas essential for all system
sudo pacman -S blas-openblas python-numpy
# good to have global
sudo pacman -S python-ruff ruff

Gentoo

sudo mkdir -p /etc/portage/env
sudo vim /etc/portage/env/o3
COMMON_FLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=native"
CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
sudo mkdir -p /etc/portage/package.env
sudo vim /etc/portage/package.env/o3
sci-libs/openblas o3
dev-python/numpy o3
sci-libs/lapack o3
sudo emerge --ask --quiet --verbose sci-libs/openblas dev-python/numpy

For other Python packages check repository Makefiles. Most of them provide make pacman

GRUB

For distinctive kernels from other distros edit /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober around menuentry:

title="${LLABEL} $LKERNEL $onstr"

Edit /etc/default/grub

# remember last choice
GRUB_DEFAULT="saved"
# infinite timeout
GRUB_TIMEOUT=-1

# AMD optional `amd_pstate_ut=active`
# for lowmem only, if swap: `zswap.enabled=1 zswap.max_pool_percent=50`. Not recommended
# not working touchscreen: `usbcore.quirks=2386:3125:bk`. See https://gist.github.com/ulcuber/1a1da7886b8501ee724220750069a3ed
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""

# usually it comes with theme
GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub/themes/starfield/theme.txt"
# to see all boot entries without nested menus
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y
# detect other OSes
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

Then make new config:

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

SSH

ssh-keygen
cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

Add machine public key to https://github.com/settings/ssh/new

Fstab

lsblk -f
sudo vim /etc/fstab

Sync configs

Download chezmoi

export GITHUB_USERNAME=
sh -c "$(curl -fsLS https://get.chezmoi.io)" -- -b $HOME/.local/bin init git@github.com:$GITHUB_USERNAME/dotfiles.git

Fill ~/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.yaml data. You might need:

ls /sys/class/power_supply
ls /sys/class/backlight
sensors

Then ~/.local/bin/chezmoi apply

Theme

To run i3 init theme files

~/.config/xsettingsd/set-theme <name>
~/.config/xsettingsd/set-color-scheme light

Note that these are the main scripts that trigger other theme and color-scheme

For example, rofi, xrdb, kitty have the same scripts that manage their own symlinks

Xsettingsd composes all these scripts

.bashrc

Add to ~/.bashrc:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc_common ]; then
	. ~/.bashrc_common
fi

The local .bashrc will be private for system specific vars like:

export BROWSER='/usr/bin/chromium'

. /usr/share/nvm/init-nvm.sh

export BUN_INSTALL="$HOME/.bun"
export PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"

/etc

# from chezmoi
cd ~/.config/etc-backup/
# needs packages to install their configs
# Repeat for new packages
# Does not override existing configs
make install

Kmonad

sudo mkdir /var/log/$USER
sudo chown $USER:$USER /var/log/$USER
sudo usermod -aG input $USER
sudo groupadd uinput
sudo usermod -aG uinput $USER
sudo rc-update add kmonad default
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger
sudo modprobe uinput

# install kmonad itself too
sudo rc-service kmonad start
sudo rc-service kmonad status

PHP

sudo pacman -S php-fpm php-fpm-openrc php-pgsql php-apcu php-imagick php-redis php-sqlite

cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s php php8.5

Composer

Check latest instruction https://getcomposer.org/download/

composer global require laravel/installer

PIE

https://github.com/php/pie

curl -fL --output /tmp/pie.phar https://github.com/php/pie/releases/latest/download/pie.phar
# get hash: https://github.com/php/pie/releases
# no `sha256:` prefix
PIE_HASH="e8d27c100e85720f374a55f79d63fa8d686dedabc9ccbc6567085e0baf646d55"
echo "$PIE_HASH  /tmp/pie.phar" | sha256sum --check
sudo mv /tmp/pie.phar /usr/local/bin/pie
sudo chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/pie

pie install swoole/swoole
# uncomment extensions: bcmath curl iconv intl mysqli pdo_mysql pdo_pgsql pdo_sqlite pgsql sockets sodium sqlite3 zip
sudo vim /etc/php/php.ini

sudo vim /etc/php/php-fpm.d/www.conf
sudo rc-service php-fpm start

MySQL

sudo pacman -S mariadb mariadb-openrc
sudo mariadb-install-db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
sudo vim ~/.my.cnf
sudo rc-service mysql start

Server: nginx

sudo pacman -S nginx nginx-openrc
sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
sudo nginx -t
sudo vim /etc/hosts

Redis

sudo pacman -S valkey redis-openrc

sudo vim /etc/valkey/valkey.conf:

unixsocket /run/valkey/valkey.sock
unixsocketperm 755
sudo mkdir /run/valkey
sudo chown valkey:wheel /run/valkey

sudo vim /etc/init.d/redis: redis to valkey

sudo vim /etc/php/conf.d/redis.ini

sudo rc-service redis start

Xhprof

See: https://gist.github.com/ulcuber/ea20e10fa961721afb94e7552ec9992b

Runlevels

sudo rc-update -s add default mysql
sudo rc-update add php-fpm mysql
sudo rc-update add mysql mysql
sudo rc-update add redis mysql
sudo rc-update add nginx mysql

Node

Artix

sudo pacman -S nvm unzip

Generic/Gentoo

See: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm

curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

You may want a workaround for vim ALE:

ln -sf ~/.nvm/versions/node/v24.16.0/bin/node ~/.local/bin/node

Bun globals

# for vim COC bash
bun add -g bash-language-server
# for vim ALE markdown
bun add -g textlint textlint-rule-write-good @textlint-rule/textlint-rule-preset-google textlint-rule-terminology textlint-rule-spellcheck-tech-word

Vim

With bun and node you can run :PlugInstall!

Git repos

xkb-switch

mkdir -p ~/git-repos/cpp
git clone git@github.com:sergei-mironov/xkb-switch.git ~/git-repos/cpp/xkb-switch
cd ~/git-repos/cpp/xkb-switch
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

trans

mkdir -p ~/git-repos/awk
git clone git@github.com:soimort/translate-shell.git ~/git-repos/awk/translate-shell
cd ~/git-repos/awk/translate-shell
make
sudo make install

Snote

mkdir -p ~/git-repos/c
git clone git@github.com:ulcuber/snote.git ~/git-repos/c/snote
sudo pacman -S libx11 libxext libxft fontconfig freetype2
cd ~/git-repos/c/snote
make
make install

Fbgrab

Portage upstream for media-gfx/fbgrab

mkdir -p ~/git-repos/c
git clone git@github.com:GunnarMonell/fbgrab.git ~/git-repos/c/fbgrab
cd ~/git-repos/c/fbgrab
make
sudo make install

Fbterm

Portage upstream for media-gfx/fbgrab is too old for Artix. So using its fork

mkdir -p ~/git-repos/forks
git clone git@github.com:ulcuber/fbterm.git ~/git-repos/forks/fbterm
cd ~/git-repos/forks/fbterm
autoreconf -vfi
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
sudo setcap cap_sys_tty_config+ep /usr/bin/fbterm

Fbida (fbi + ida)

sudo pacman -S ninja meson poppler-glib

mkdir -p ~/git-repos/c
git clone git@gitlab.com:kraxel/fbida.git ~/git-repos/c/fbida
cd ~/git-repos/c/fbida
make
cp build-meson-aspire/fbi ~/.local/bin/
  • Neofetch

OpenRC Console Font

Install fonts

Pacman

sudo pacman -S terminus-font

Emerge

sudo emerge --ask media-fonts/terminus-font

See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fonts/Console

Select font

Check available fonts in:

  • Gentoo: /usr/share/consolefonts
  • Artix: /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/ter-*

Try in TTY: setfont ter-c32n

If font fits then apply it globally in /etc/conf.d/consolefont:

consolefont="ter-c32n"

If everything is OK add to runlevel:

sudo rc-update add consolefont boot

Extra

  • Check custom /usr/local/bin
  • Copy your ~/.local/share/fonts
  • battery and power_now utils
  • bash-scripts

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