Artix installation script

A customizable install-script for Artix Linux that can either be executed interactively with prompts or automatic - an automatic install requires modifying the provided answerfile.

By default, the following is set up:

• Subvolumes with support for snapshots
• Paru as AUR-helper; of course aliased to yay!
• Arch-repositories enabled
• The following pacman-hooks:
  • Cleaning package cache to only keep the two latest versions
  • Creating snapshots pre kernel update/install + recreates grub.cfg
  • Ranks pacman-mirrorlist whenever the mirrorlist are updated
• The following packages:
  • linux-zen, linux-zen-headers and linux-firmware
  • Init-services: ananicy-cpp (manage processes' IO and CPU priorities), cronie (used for snapshots-cleaning), cryptsetup (for encrypted swap alone, if no encryption of /), iwd (replaces wpa_supplicant), chrony (used to keep check of system-time) and backlight (saves previous brightness)
  • Either intel-ucode or amd-ucode depending on your CPU
  • booster as a replacement for mkinitcpio
  • Filesystem utilies; either btrfs-progs or bcachefs-tools + dosfstools (for FAT32)
  • Miscellaneous packages: iptables-nft (replaces iptables), pacman-contrib (provides paccache and more), btrbk (snapshots-utility), git and base-devel

while the following are decided by the user:

• Choice of filesystem; either btrfs or bcachefs
  • NOTICE: Bcachefs is yet to be mainlined into the kernel
• Making a /home-partition or not
• LUKS2-encryption of / or /home, if a /home-partition exist
• zram as a replacement for a swap-partition; includes zramen as an init-service
• Choice of init; dinit, openrc or runit
• Replacing the following packages with alternatives:
  • Replace elogind with seatd; will install an elogind dummy-package
  • Replace networkmanager with connman
  • Replace sudo with doas
• Install additional packages
• Execute custom script after install as regular user
• Locals and users

Installation

If using the official ISO by Artix Linux:

loadkeys KEYMAP
connmanctl 
  enable wifi
  scan wifi
  agent on
  services
  connect WIFI_ID # connmanctl has tab-completion
  exit
pacman -Sy --noconfirm git
git clone https://gitlab.com/FabseGP02/artix-install-script.git
cd artix-install-script
./install_artix.sh # Remember to replace the answerfile, if an automatic install is desired

TODO

In no given order:

• Support for bcachefs once mainlined into linux-kernel
• Integration with post-script to fully setup your system
• Option to return to the previous submenu; currently only to start of script

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

GPL