Configure system

The nano text editor

Nano is the text editor we will use in this tutorial. Basic Usage:

• Move with arrow keys
• CTRL + O and then ENTER to save
• CTRL + X to exit

Setup hostname

📛 This will be the name of your PC on your network (Replace myhostname)

echo myhostname > /etc/hostname
nano /etc/hosts

Add these lines

127.0.0.1   localhost
::1         localhost
127.0.1.1   myhostname.localdomain  myhostname

Setup locale

🌐 Uncomment (remove the # in front of) all languages you need

nano /etc/locale.gen

🏁 Generate locales

locale-gen

🔘 Set locale

echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

⌨️ Set tty keymap (replace yourkeymap with your keymap e.g. de-latin1)

echo KEYMAP=yourkeymap > /etc/vconsole.conf

Setup time & date

📅 You can tab-complete your stuff after zoneinfo

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc --utc

Configure pacman

Edit pacman configuration file

nano /etc/pacman.conf

Setup multilib

👾 multilib is a repository which contains 32-bit libraries and is disabled by default (needed for some games & software; highly recommended to enable)

💥 Uncomment (remove the # in front of) the following lines

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Enable parallel downloads

🌐 Depending on your internet connection enabling parallel downloads may speed up the package download process

💥 Uncomment (remove the # in front of) this line and set it to your desired value

ParallelDownloads = 5

Extra candy

🍬 If you want some extra candy you can uncomment Color and VerbosePkgLists and add ILoveCandy under Misc options.

After configuring

pacman -Syu