This is a note for my Arch linux.

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Installation

PC

MSI GE60 2OE

CPU: i7-4700

GPU: GTX 765M

Windows8 preinstalled.

Preparation

Download the image from here.

https://www.archlinux.org/download/

And create an Arch linux installer USB drvie with dd command on a mac.

dd if=image.iso of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=1m

for other method in different platform, you may refer the arch wiki.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_flash_installation_media

Boot

Note that you may need to disable secure boot.

Archiso shell

Connect to the internet.

Wireless.

wifi-menu -o wlp5s0

Update the system clock.

timedatectl set-ntp true

Partition the disk

Identify the divces.

lsblk

Use cgdsik to partition.

cgdisk /dev/sdx

Format filesystem and mount it on /mnt.

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdxx
mount /dev/sdxx /mnt

Select the best mirror and install the base package.

vim /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel

Mount the efi partition.

mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/sdxx /mnt/boot/efi

Configuration

Generate fstab.

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Chroot into arch isntallation

arch-chroot /mnt

Some configuration.

passwd
echo HOSTNAME >> /ect/hostname
tzselect
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/ZONE/SUBZONE /etc/localtime
vi /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
hwclock --systohc --utc
mkinitcpio -p linux

Network

pacman -S iw wpa_supplicant dialog networkmanager
systemctl enable NetworkManager

Grub

pacman -S grub efibootmgr
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
grub-install /dev/sdX

Desktop

pacman -S zsh vim guake gnome network-manager-applet
useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/zsh USERNAME
passwd USERNAME
pacman -S gdm
systemctl enable gdm

Unmount and reboot

exit
umount 	-R /mnt
reboot

Configure windows boot manager after reboot

nmcli dev wifi connect WIFISSID password WIFIPASSWROD
su
visudo
pacman -S os-prober
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
reboot

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Cusomization

sudo pacman -Syyu
sudo pacman -S wget chromium git mpv cmus gnome-tweak-tool zip unrar
sudo pacman -S python python2
sudo pacman -S wqy-bitmapfont wqy-zenhei ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming opendesktop-fonts

SSH

sudo pacman -S openssh
sudo systemctl enable sshd.socket
sudo systemctl start sshd.socket
sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Touchpad

sudo pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-libinput
synclietn TouchpadOff=1

yaourt

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/package-query.git
cd package-query
makepkg -si
cd ..
git clone https//aur.archlinux.org/yaourt.git
cd yaourt
makepkg -si
cd ..

Move the home

mkdir /home.new
mount /dev/sdX /home.new
cp -a /home/user /home.new
umout /home.new
rm -rf /home
mv /home.new /home
mount /dev/sdX /home
lsblk -f
vim /etc/fstab

CCache

sudo pacman -S ccache
echo 'export PATH="/usr/lib/ccache/bin/:$PATH" >> ~/.zshrc'
sudo vim /etc/makepkg.conf

In BUILDDEV uncomment cache.

Console fonts

yaourt -S terminess-powerline-font-git
setfonts /usr/share/kbd/ter-powerline-v32n.psf.gz
vim /etc/vconsole.conf

then set FONT=ter-powerline-v32n.

Setup terminal

echo export TERM=xterm-256color >> ~/.zshrc

Arduino

yaourt -S arduino
sudo gpasswd -a $USER uucp
sudo gpasswd -a $USER lock

Misc

sudo pacman -S zip ntfs-3g
yaourt -S insync
sudo systemctl enable insync@<user>

Net monitor

sudo pacman -S nmap wireshark netcat iptraf

Matlab

Download the installer

ln -s /{MATLAB}/bin/matlab /usr/local/bin}
gpg --recv-keys F7E48EDB
yaourt -S ncurses5-compat-libs
./$MATLABROOT/bin/activate_matlab.sh

VirtualBox

sudo pacman -S virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-arch virtualbox-guest-iso qt4
yaourt -S virtualbox-ext-oracle
sudo systemctl start systemd-modules-load.service
sudo modprobe vboxdrv
sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxusers

VirtualBox command line

vboxmanage list vms
vboxmanage list running vms

Nvidia (got some problem)

pacman -S intel-dri xf86-video-intel nvidia bbswitch bumblebee lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-intel-dri
sudo gpasswd -a $USER bumblebee
sudo systemctl enable bumblebeed
sudo sed -i 's/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1"/' /etc/default/grub

Edit /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia, set BusID "PCI:x:x:x", which should be the one shown for the Nvidia card in lspci.

To turn on Nvidia graphics card.

sudo tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<< ON
sudo modprobe nvidia

To turn off Nvidia graphics card.

sudo modprobe -r nvidia
sudo tee /proc/acpi/bbswtich <<< OFF

Test Bumblebee.

optirun glxgears -info

Git ssh

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C <user_email>
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
sudo pacman -S xclip
xclip -sel clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

if got error "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent", try

eval `ssh-agent`
eval ssh-agent -s

Then go ssh settings to add the ssh key.

Change https to ssh.

git remote show origin
git remote set-url origin git+ssh://[email protected]/USERNAME/REPONAME.git

Create git repo in command line

Replace the USER with username and REPO with repository name

mkdir REPO && cd REPO
git init
echo init > README.md
git add .
git commit -m "init"
curl -u 'USER' https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":"REPO"}'
git remote add origin https://github.com/USER/REPO.git
# If prefer ssh to https, replace it with the following commad.
# git remote add origin [email protected]:USER/REPO.git
git push --set-upstream origin master

curl with bitbucket api

curl -u USERNAME https://api.bitbucket.org/1.0/repositories --data name=REPO_NAME is_priviate='true'

Gitbook

sudo npm install gitbook gitbook-cli -g
gitbook init
gitbook serve

Dictionary

sudo pacman -S sdcv
wget http://abloz.com/huzheng/stardict-dic/zh_TW/stardict-langdao-ec-big5-2.4.2.tar.bz2
wget http://abloz.com/huzheng/stardict-dic/zh_TW/stardict-langdao-ce-big5-2.4.2.tar.bz2
mkdir -p ~/.stardict/dic
tar -xvf stardict-langdao-ec-big5-2.4.2.tar.bz2 /usr/share/stardict/dic -C ~/.stardict/dic
tar -xvf stardict-langdao-ce-big5-2.4.2.tar.bz2 /usr/share/stardict/dic -C ~/.stardict/dic
sdcv -l

PTT

pacman -S xorg-luit
luit -encoding big5 ssh [email protected]

Youtube player hotkeys

Note that I use chromium and cVim plugin, so you may not need Alt key in other case.

Function	Key
Full screen	<alt> F
toggle play/pause	<alt> k
go forward	<alt> l
go back	<alt> j
move forward 1 frame	<alt> .
move backward 1 frame	<alt> ,
increase speed	<alt> >
decrease speed	<alt> <

Gnome screenshot Usage

Take screenshot and save to clipboard, of which the hotkey is + + .

gnome-screenshot -ac

Launch a interactive window to take screenshot.

gnome-screenshot -ai

Use xclip command to save the screenshot in command line.

xclip -se c -t image/png -o > THE_DESTENATION

ZSH plugin

yaourt -S zsh-syntax-highlighting
youart -S zsh-autosuggestions
echo source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh >> ~/.zshrc
echo source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh >> ~/.zshrc

Convert PPT to PDF by LibreOffice

libreoffice --convert-to pdf FILE_NAME.ptt

Remove files except specific file

ls | grep -v FILE_NAME | xargs rm

Bug: if encountered unable to open display ":0.0" when open gparted, try

export DISPLAY=":0.0"
xhost +
sudo gparted

Use netcat for file transfers

On the receiving end

nc -l -p PORT > OUTFILE

On the sending end

nc -w 3 DESTINATION PORT < FILE_TO_TRANSFER

monitor the dd progress with pv

dd if=INFILE | pv | dd of=OUTFILE

Backup

backup pacman database

tar -cjf pacman_database.tar.bz2 /var/lib/pacman/local
tar -xjvf pacman_database.tar.bz2

list native, explicitly installed packages

pacman -Qqen > pkglist.txt

list foreign, explicitly installed packages

pacman -Qem

exclude the foreign packages(ex. AUR)

comm -12 <(pacman -Slq | sort) <(sort pkglist.txt)

install packages from list

pacman -S - < pkglist

fullly backup with rsync

sudo rsync -aAXv --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} / /run/media/circle/toshiba-linux/arch-linux-backup/

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Remove a large file from git history

git filter-branch -f --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch FOLDERNAME" -- --all
m -rf .git/refs/original/
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git gc --prune=now
git gc --aggressive --prune=now
git push --all --force