archinstall
Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc. (by archlinux)
informant
An Arch Linux News reader and pacman hook (by bradford-smith94)
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| archinstall | informant | |
|---|---|---|
| 199 | 20 | |
| 5,585 | 231 | |
| 2.6% | - | |
| 9.4 | 2.2 | |
| 2 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
archinstall
Posts with mentions or reviews of archinstall.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.
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Endeavor vs Vanilla arch?
The related issue https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/1111 implies it's fixed, but either way, you can just securely delete your password after the install.
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Does Archinstall have any downsides?
Still feels that it is in rapid development phase, rather than just maintenance, last month I encountered this bug
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"Failed to install packages to new root\r\n" (Archinstall script)
The problem has been fixed in Git, we'll just have to wait for the fix to be released in the next version of archinstall.
- I need some help with archinstall...
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What login manager is this
According to Archinstall's code, it seems like the bspwm profile installs lightdm by default
- Update to Linux install script (ArchLinux Edition)
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Arch server ?
If you use a configuration file and don't use custom-commands, there is no problem whatsoever. I do believe Archinstall's developers are going to make sure no declaration will fail. That being said, looking at their bug tracker, it looks like Arch is moving a bit too fast for them too as there are installation-blocking bugs regularly showing up (and usually solved swiftly!) but do you want to wait for 2 months to redeploy your system your secondary disk is confusing the installer?
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Can i find the script of Archinstall?
reading https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall or just read the arch installation wiki is pretty much just does that
The archinstall script source code can be found on GitHub/archlinux/archinstall.
informant
Posts with mentions or reviews of informant.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
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As An Arch User, I find this incredibly True.
It blocks your updates when there's Arch newsfeed updates that you haven't read, prints it to terminal and then you just need to mark the latest news as read for your updates to go through. It's rare enough that it's not a bother, while this news can contain crucial information about what needs manual intervention and how. https://github.com/bradford-smith94/informant
- What are cool things in Arch that aren’t that popular.
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Considering Arch for future use but have one concern
You can install Informant
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Getting 'error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))' during update
Not sure about any EndeavourOS specific solution, but informant as a pacman hook gets you all the unread Arch news items before upgrading.
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Is there anything like Gentoos "news" function in portage, that notifies you directly of any manual changes that you might need to make to your system in an update?
Informant (from the AUR) gives you a few commands to check the arch news and includes a pacman hook that blocks transactions if there are unread news.
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Perfectly broken
Informant is a pacman hook which will block updates when there are unread news.
Updates on frontpage are quite rare and for those informant exists
- why do people use yaourt instead of yay?
- Is it weird that I use Arch because it "just works"?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing archinstall and informant you can also consider the following projects:
archfi - Arch Linux Fast Installer : tutorial installer
Ventoy - A new bootable USB solution.
archiso - Official archiso scripts Repository (read-only mirror)
autorandr - Auto-detect the connected display hardware and load the appropriate X11 setup using xrandr
gotop - A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop
bauh - Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications
paru - Feature packed AUR helper
s-tui - Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility
ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
Simple-ArchLinux-Install-Guide - Archlinux manual and automated simple installation UEFI with GRUB,GUI,NVIDIA,AMD,User Space with all popular Desktop Environments.
archinstall_gui - Guided Arch Linux graphical installer