What to do after installing Manjaro Qonos 21.2

This guide serves as a reminder for me when I go to install Manjaro again. I will describe what I did after install to get my workstation back up and running with what I need to do JavaScript / TypeScript development.

My system

Lenovo Legion T5 x86_64 Grub 2 Kernel 5.13 Manjaro Qonos 21.1 KDE 5.88 Plasma 5.23

Table of Contents

Pre-Install

Note: You are going to have to backup your current files to another partition like I did or you could use an external drive or USB stick. I keep my console files in a GitHub repo, see Bash below.

The main things I backed up were:

• ~/.local/bin/
• ~/.config/sublime-text/Packages/User/
• ~/.gitconfig

Post-Install

Here is my list of things I did to get up and running with a fresh Manjaro.

cat /etc/lsb-release

DISTRIB_ID=ManjaroLinux
DISTRIB_RELEASE=21.2.0
DISTRIB_CODENAME=Qonos

Update

First update the local mirror and system packages

sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack

sudo pacman -Syu

Firewall

The firewall is super easy to setup for minimal protection

sudo pacman -S --needed gufw

Then just run the GUI

gufw

System Configuration

Graphics Card

Install proprietary video drivers (Nvidia)

systemsettings5 msm_mhwd

Date and Time

Set date and time automatically

systemsettings5 clock

Package Management

sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.service

sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap

Yay

sudo pacman -S --needed yay

yay -Y --gendb && yay -Syu --devel

Uncomment Color option in /etc/pacman.conf

System Monitor

sudo pacman -S --needed ksysguard

ksysguard --version

ksysguard 5.22.0

Reduce Swappiness

Good if you have an SSD (hard drive)

I have 32G memory so I need to be swapping seldomly

sudo su

echo "vm.swappiness=10" > /etc/sysctl.d/100-manjaro.conf

exit

Setup Block Cleaning Job

Good if you have an SSD (hard drive)

systemctl list-timers -all

 NEXT                        LEFT          LAST                        PASSED    UNIT                         ACTIVATES                 >
 Mon 2021-11-29 18:46:32 EST 5min left     n/a                         n/a       systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.ser>
 Tue 2021-11-30 00:00:00 EST 5h 18min left Mon 2021-11-29 17:43:41 EST 57min ago logrotate.timer              logrotate.service
 Tue 2021-11-30 00:00:00 EST 5h 18min left Mon 2021-11-29 17:43:41 EST 57min ago man-db.timer                 man-db.service
 Tue 2021-11-30 00:00:00 EST 5h 18min left Mon 2021-11-29 17:43:41 EST 57min ago pkgfile-update.timer         pkgfile-update.service
 Tue 2021-11-30 00:00:00 EST 5h 18min left Mon 2021-11-29 17:43:41 EST 57min ago shadow.timer                 shadow.service
 Thu 2021-12-02 10:39:52 EST 2 days left   Mon 2021-11-29 17:43:41 EST 57min ago pamac-mirrorlist.timer       pamac-mirrorlist.service
 Sat 2021-12-04 15:00:00 EST 4 days left   Mon 2021-11-29 17:43:41 EST 57min ago pamac-cleancache.timer       pamac-cleancache.service

systemctl status fstrim.timer

 ○ fstrim.timer - Discard unused blocks once a week
      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
      Active: inactive (dead)

sudo systemctl enable fstrim.timer

 Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/fstrim.timer → /usr/lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer.

systemctl status fstrim.timer

 ○ fstrim.timer - Discard unused blocks once a week
      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
      Active: inactive (dead)

systemctl status fstrim.timer

 ● fstrim.timer - Discard unused blocks once a week
      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
      Active: active (waiting) since Mon 2021-11-29 18:47:13 EST; 9s ago
     Trigger: Mon 2021-12-06 01:30:45 EST; 6 days left

Hosts

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname legion

sudo vim /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       legion
104.237.140.142 cowboy

! Scripts

Restore ~/.local/bin/

Firefox

Use dark theme

about:addons -> Themes

Update search engine to Duck Duck Go:

about:preferences#search -> Default Search Engine

Do not warn when closing multiple tabs:

about:config -> Search: browser.tabs.warn

browser.tabs.warnOnClose false
browser.tabs.warnOnCloseOtherTabs false

Add-ons

• Dark Reader by Alexander Shutau
• Traquility Reader by arunk

Keys

Install ssh keys

Generate

https://help.github.com/en/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "stav@legion"

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed255192

Add to remotes

Manually copy contents of ~/.ssh/id_ed255192.pub to GitHub & Bitbucket.

GitHub

• https://github.com/settings/keys
• https://help.github.com/en/articles/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account

BitBucket

• https://bitbucket.org/account/user/stav/ssh-keys/

Cowboy

Enable password login on remote host

https://cloud.linode.com/linodes COWBOY LISH

cowboy$ sed -iE 's/^PasswordAuthentication no/PasswordAuthentication yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
cowboy$ sudo systemctl restart sshd

Authorize key

cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub | ssh cowboy 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

Disable password login on remote host

cowboy$ sed -iE 's/^PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication no/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
cowboy$ sudo systemctl restart sshd

Bash

git clone git@github.com:stav/dotbash.git ~/.bash

Install bash_it

$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it.git ~/.bash_it
$ ~/.bash_it/install.sh  # keep existing `.bashrc` and append templates (y)

Install Powerline theme

https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it/tree/master/themes/powerline

mkdir ~/Public/powerline
cd ~/Public/powerline
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git
./fonts/install.sh
wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf
wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf
mv PowerlineSymbols.otf ~/.local/share/fonts/
fc-cache -vf ~/.local/share/fonts/
mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/
mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/

Close all Terminal instances

Copy files

.bash_projects
.bash-it.bash
.bashrc

Link files for editor reference

ls .bash_links/

.bash_links/.bash-it.bash -> ~/.bash-it.bash
.bash_links/.bash_projects -> ~/.bash_projects
.bash_links/.bashrc -> ~/.bashrc

Hugo

It’s good to update this document as I’m installing.

Clone Repository

git clone git@github.com:stav/steven.michael.git ~/Public/stav/steven.michael

cd ~/Public/stav/steven.michael

git submodule update --init --recursive

Instal Hugo Extended Version

The Academic theme needs the extended version.

If you run Hugo but get an error like this:

$ hugo
Building sites ERROR: failed to transform resource:
TOCSS: failed to transform "main_parsed.scss" (text/x-scss):
this feature is not available in your current Hugo version,
see https://goo.gl/YMrWcn

then you need the extended version.

Download and extract the Hugo extended version, see Assets (hugo_extended_0.64.0_Linux-64bit.tar.gz).

cp ~/Downloads/hugo_extended_0.89.4_Linux-64bit/hugo ~/.local/bin/

Install Golang

sudo pacman -S --needed go

Sublime

Sublime Text is an excellent editor and Sublime Merge is good enough now that I hardly ever use the command line anymore for Git anymore.

Install

curl -O https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg && sudo pacman-key --add sublimehq-pub.gpg && sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 8A8F901A && rm sublimehq-pub.gpg

echo -e "\n[sublime-text]\nServer = https://download.sublimetext.com/arch/stable/x86_64" | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf

sudo pacman -Syu --needed sublime-text sublime-merge

License

Add under help menu.

----- BEGIN LICENSE -----
Steven Almeroth
Single User License
EA7E-... 104B
------ END LICENSE ------

Package Control

You want Package Control from wbond.

Install Package Control

Command Pallate (shft-ctrl-p) -> Install Package Control

Install packages

Restore the following file from your backup and Package Control will automatically install all missing packages:

• ~/.config/sublime-text/Packages/User/Package Control.sublime-settings

then restart SublimeText.

Copy Files

Copy remaining backup files to ~/.config/sublime-text/Packages/User/

Do not copy these:

• User/Package Control.cache/
• User/Package Control.last-run
• User/Package Control.merged-ca-bundle
• User/Package Control.user-ca-bundle

VS Code

sudo snap install code --classic

code ccbaa2d2 from Visual Studio Code (vscode✓) installed

Development

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git meld

Applications

sudo pacman -S --needed brave-browser libreoffice-fresh telegram-desktop thunderbird gimp mpv

Productivity

sudo pacman -S --needed vim tree timeshift

Node

We will use the Node Version Manager (nvm) to install specific versions as needed so first we just install the base packages

Install dependencies

sudo pamac install nodejs npm nvm

Use nvm to install node

I needed to run a setup script to get nvm to run:

source /usr/share/nvm/init-nvm.sh

Let’s see what versions we can install:

nvm ls-remote |grep Latest

     v4.9.1   (Latest LTS: Argon)
    v6.17.1   (Latest LTS: Boron)
    v8.17.0   (Latest LTS: Carbon)
   v10.24.1   (Latest LTS: Dubnium)
   v12.22.7   (Latest LTS: Erbium)
   v14.18.2   (Latest LTS: Fermium)
   v16.13.1   (Latest LTS: Gallium)

nvm install 16

Now using node v16.13.1 (npm v8.1.2)

Install package managers

corepack enable

Update yarn

yarn set version stable

Install pnpm

corepack prepare pnpm@6.22.2 --activate

Previous Installs

I previously installed some other stuff:

• SUSE 15.1
• Ubuntu 19.10
• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.04