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This is a guide for installing ArchAssault on bare vanilla Arch Linux.

Prepare the Environment¶

• WARNING: Commands are run as root, may eat your cat:
  

  sudo -s
  

• Make sure the system is up to date:
  

  pacman -Syu
  

Install the Repository¶

• Edit /etc/pacman.conf:
  

  nano /etc/pacman.conf
  

• Add an entry for the ArchAssault repo at the bottom:
  

  [archassault]
  Server = https://repo.archassault.org/archassault/$repo/os/$arch
  

  • If you're running on x86_64 you will also need to uncomment [multilib] support from community if you haven't already:
    

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

• Grab the signed key and locally sign it:
  

  pacman-key -r CC1D2606 && pacman-key --lsign-key CC1D2606
  

• Save and exit, then install the keyring and mirrorlist packages:
  

  pacman -Syyu archassault-keyring archassault-mirrorlist
  

• Open /etc/pacman.d/archassault-mirrorlist with a text editor:
  

  nano /etc/pacman.d/archassault-mirrorlist
  

  • Choose a mirror you would like to use and remove the # at the beginning of the line if there is one, then add a # to the beginning of any lines without one that have mirrors you do not wish to use. For example, to use the mirror at psg.mtu.edu, it will looks something like:
    

    #Server = http://mirror.catn.com/pub/archassault/$repo/os/$arch
    #Server = http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/repo.archassault.org/archassault/$repo/os/$arch
    ## United States
    #Server = http://repo.archassault.org/archassault/$repo/os/$arch
    Server = http://psg.mtu.edu/pub/archassault/$repo/os/$arch
    #Server = http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/archassault/$repo/os/$arch
    #Server = http://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/archassault/$repo/os/$arch
    

• Then edit /etc/pacman.conf again:
  

  nano /etc/pacman.conf
  

  • Inside, configure pacman to use the ArchAssault mirrorlist rather than the single server set earlier by replacing:
    

    #Server = http://repo.archassault.org/archassault/$repo/os/$arch
    Include = /etc/pacman.d/archassault-mirrorlist
    

• Sync the repo with the configured mirror:
  

  pacman -Syy
  

Installing Packages¶

You may now install tools from the ArchAssault repository. For a list of all the possible groups, please see our package groups page.

• To list all of the available tools, run:
  

  pacman -Sgg
  

• To install all of the tools in the main archassault group, run:
  

  pacman -S archassault
  

• To install packages from ArchAssault wireless group, run:
  

  pacman -S archassault-wireless
  

• To view the list of ArchAssault package groups, run:
  

  pacman -Sg
  

Resources¶

• https://wiki.archassault.org/Repo