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Friday, December 7, 2012

Arch-Linux 2012.10 x86_64 with KDE4 Desktop Installation Steps Easy Tutorial

The Tutorial Show Step-by-Step How-to Install Arch-Linux 2012.10 64bit KDE4 Desktop.

The Steps Concernig Getting and Evenutally Burning the archlinux-2012.10.06-dual.iso Media are Skipped.

All Steps are Simply Delineated and For Sake of Clarity I Do Not Take Into Account the Extra Choices and Customizations to Make Clearer & Easier the Process.

So if You Have Some Doubt or Need Some More Insight you Should Consult the Official Arch-Linux Documentation...

Just Relax & Take the Time of Carefully Reading and Executing the Instructions Contained Here and All should Work Like a Summer Breeze :)

Boot from Arch-Linux 2012.10 Dual DVD
Select Boot Arch Linux x86_64
Select the Installation Keyboard Layout
(Necessary Only for Non-US Layouts)

Example:
```
loadkeys fr
```
Disk Partitioning
```
fdisk /dev/sda
```
Here I Suppose you Make a First Partition for Swap a Second One for Root and Third One for Home.

Here is the Detailed Guide for Partitioning with fdisk:

fdisk Partitioning Getting-Started

The Linked Guide Show How-to Getting-Started Partitioning with fdisk Command Line Tool.

Formatting Partitions

Formatting Root and Home

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda3

Setting and Enabling Swap

mkswap /dev/sda1

swapon /dev/sda1

Mounting Partitions

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

mkdir /mnt/home

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/home

Installing Base-System
```
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
```
Generate a fstab File
```
genfstab -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
```
Chrooting into System
```
arch-chroot /mnt
```
Set Hostname
```
nano /etc/hostname
```
Inserting:
```
archlinux
```
Ctrl+x to Save & Exit :)

Replicate into /etc/hosts:
```
nano /etc/hosts
```
Adding to the End of Lines Containing localhost:
```
archlinux
```
Set Local-Time:
```
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime
```
(For a Complete List #ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/<Continent>/)
Generate the System Language-Character Set
Enable the Needed Locale Language/Character-Set
```
nano /etc/locale.gen
```
Uncomment (example):
```
en_US UTF-8 UTF-8
```
Set the Sistem-Wide Language/Character-Set
```
nano /etc/locale.conf
```
Inserting:
```
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
```
Then Generate the Locale Language/Character-Set
```
locale-gen
```
Set the Installed Keyboard Layout
```
nano /etc/vconsole.conf
```
Inserting (example):
```
KEYMAP=us
```
(Look-for disposables Keymaps in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/layout)
Set the Root Password
```
passwd
```
Generate Initial Ramdisk
Eventually Edit the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf According to System Hardware
```
mkinitcpio -p linux
```
Install Grub2 Bootloader Into System

Arch-Linux Installing GRUB

The Linked Guide Show How-to Install Grub2 for Arch-Linux 2012.
Unmount & Reboot
Exit from Chroot Environment
```
exit
```
Unmount
```
umount /mnt/home
```
```
umount /mnt
```
Reboot
```
reboot
```
Login as root

Add Normal User

useradd spirit -d /home/spirit

passwd spirit

mkdir /home/spirit

chown spirit:spirit /home/spirit

Installing the KDE4 Desktop on Arch-Linux 2012.10 x86_64:

KDE4 OnTop of Arch-Linux

The Linked Guide Show Exactly How-to Install & SetUp the KDE4 Desktop OnTop of Arch-Linux 2012.10.