Essential Tools

We will make sure some environment and tools work before installing anything else.

WARNING

This can be skipped for production environment, as the guide makes sure everything is installed with one command

Other utilities

Just make sure we have these, since other tools/projects might need them without asking

sudo pacman -Syu zip unzip wget gzip

Bash Profile

Open ~/.bashrc and replace the content with the following

#
# ~/.bashrc
#

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return
# Quick config shortcuts
alias vibash='nvim ~/.bashrc'
alias vinvim='nvim ~/.config/nvim/'

export EDITOR='nvim'

# Temporary
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

TIP

For VM, add an extra line

export HOST_MACHINE_IP="192.168.0.xxx"

Replace the IP with the host machine's IP address. This is used for copying from Neovim to the host machine with the wsclip utility from dotbin

Essential & Dotbin

Now, proceed to Essential Tools and install everything there.

yay

yay is an AUR helper that helps with installing stuff from AUR. Since yay is itself an AUR package, we will need to install it from source.

WARNING

Go is required to build yay. Please set it up first here

Then clone the yay repo and build it

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git ~/yay
cd ~/yay
makepkg -si

Make sure it is setup correctly, then remove the source

yay --version
cd ~
rm -rf ~/yay

TIP

Unlike pacman, when using yay to install, you do not need to run it with sudo