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# <img src="https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/raw/master/docs/logo.png" alt="drawing" width="200"/>
Just another guided/automated [Arch Linux](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux) installer with a twist.
The installer also doubles as a python library to install Arch Linux and manage services, packages and other things inside the installed system *(Usually from a live medium)*.
* archinstall [discord](https://discord.gg/cqXU88y) server
* archinstall [matrix.org](https://app.element.io/#/room/#archinstall:matrix.org) channel
* archinstall [#archinstall@freenode (IRC)](irc://#archinstall@FreeNode)
* archinstall [documentation](https://python-archinstall.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
# Installation & Usage
$ sudo pacman -S archinstall
Or simply `git clone` the repo as it has no external dependencies *(but there are optional ones)*.<br>
Or use `pip install --upgrade archinstall` to use as a library.
## Running the [guided](examples/guided.py) installer
Assuming you are on a Arch Linux live-ISO and booted into EFI mode.
# python -m archinstall guided
# Scripting your own installation
You could just copy [guided.py](examples/guided.py) as a starting point.
But assuming you're building your own ISO and want to create an automated install process, or you want to install virtual machines on to local disk images.<br>
This is probably what you'll need, a [minimal example](examples/minimal.py) of how to install using archinstall as a Python library.
```python
import archinstall, getpass
# Select a harddrive and a disk password
harddrive = archinstall.select_disk(archinstall.all_disks())
disk_password = getpass.getpass(prompt='Disk password (won\'t echo): ')
with archinstall.Filesystem(harddrive, archinstall.GPT) as fs:
# use_entire_disk() is a helper to not have to format manually
fs.use_entire_disk('luks2')
harddrive.partition[0].format('fat32')
with archinstall.luks2(harddrive.partition[1], 'luksloop', disk_password) as unlocked_device:
unlocked_device.format('btrfs')
with archinstall.Installer(unlocked_device, hostname='testmachine') as installation:
if installation.minimal_installation():
installation.add_bootloader(harddrive.partition[0])
installation.add_additional_packages(['nano', 'wget', 'git'])
installation.install_profile('awesome')
installation.user_create('anton', 'test')
installation.user_set_pw('root', 'toor')
```
This installer will perform the following:
* Prompt the user to select a disk and disk-password
* Proceed to wipe the selected disk with a `GPT` partition table on a UEFI system and MBR on a bios system.
* Sets up a default 100% used disk with encryption.
* Installs a basic instance of Arch Linux *(base base-devel linux linux-firmware btrfs-progs efibootmgr)*
* Installs and configures a bootloader to partition 0 on uefi. on bios it sets the root to partition 0.
* Install additional packages *(nano, wget, git)*
* Installs a profile with a window manager called [awesome](https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/blob/master/profiles/awesome.py) *(more on profile installations in the [documentation](https://python-archinstall.readthedocs.io/en/latest/archinstall/Profile.html))*.
> **Creating your own ISO with this script on it:** Follow [ArchISO](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/archiso)'s guide on how to create your own ISO or use a pre-built [guided ISO](https://hvornum.se/archiso/) to skip the python installation step, or to create auto-installing ISO templates. Further down are examples and cheat sheets on how to create different live ISO's.
# Help
Submit an issue on Github, or submit a post in the discord help channel.<br>
When doing so, attach any `install-session_*.log` to the issue ticket which can be found under `~/.cache/archinstall/`.
# Testing
## Using a Live ISO Image
If you want to test a commit, branch or bleeding edge release from the repository using the vanilla Arch Live ISO image, you can replace the version of archinstall with a new version and run that with the steps described below.
1. You need a working network connection
2. Install the build requirements with `pacman -Sy; pacman -S git python-pip`
*(note that this may or may not work depending on your RAM and current state of the squashfs maximum filesystem free space)*
3. Uninstall the previous version of archinstall with `pip uninstall archinstall`
4. Now clone the latest repository with `git clone https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall`
5. Enter the repository with `cd archinstall`
*At this stage, you can choose to check out a feature branch for instance with `git checkout torxed-v2.2.0`*
6. Build the project and install it using `python setup.py install`
After this, running archinstall with `python -m archinstall` will run against whatever branch you chose in step 5.
## Without a Live ISO Image
To test this without a live ISO, the simplest approach is to use a local image and create a loop device.<br>
This can be done by installing `pacman -S arch-install-scripts util-linux` locally and doing the following:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=./testimage.img bs=1G count=5
# losetup -fP ./testimage.img
# losetup -a | grep "testimage.img" | awk -F ":" '{print $1}'
# pip install --upgrade archinstall
# python -m archinstall guided
# qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -machine q35,accel=kvm -device intel-iommu -cpu host -m 4096 -boot order=d -drive file=./testimage.img,format=raw -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_VARS.fd
This will create a *5GB* `testimage.img` and create a loop device which we can use to format and install to.<br>
`archinstall` is installed and executed in [guided mode](#docs-todo). Once the installation is complete,<br>
~~you can use qemu/kvm to boot the test media.~~ *(You'd actually need to do some EFI magic in order to point the EFI vars to the partition 0 in the test medium so this won't work entirely out of the box, but gives you a general idea of what we're going for here)*
There's also a [Building and Testing](https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/wiki/Building-and-Testing) guide.<br>
It will go through everything from packaging, building and running *(with qemu)* the installer against a dev branch.
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