I'm currently trying to install Arch on a old laptop, I've done it before and assumed it would be fairly easy however I'm having issues with partitioning disks. Lsblk will show me sda which is the USB stick and nvme0n1 which only sometimes contains partitions already otherwise it shows 0 bytes. Even though it says nvme0n1 exists when I try to use fdisk/cfdisk it says cannot open invalid argument or no such file or directory. I'm unsure on what I can do to fix this as every solution I search for doesn't work. Maybe this is just a misunderstanding of it or something

Why? Why doesn’t archinstall’s "recommended KDE Plasma setup" include Konsole? What’s the reasoning behind installing a desktop without a graphical terminal? Having to switch to a TTY just to install one seems unnecessarily awkward.

[SOLVED]

Apparently, the reason is that Arch only included the Plasma components in `plasma-meta` and not Konsole, because Konsole is part of the KDE Applications. Another user clarified this.

In any case, there is still a question to put to the KDE maintainers at this point:
Why is taking screenshots considered part of plasma essential (Spectacle is included as an essential package for Plasma), while having a graphical terminal isn’t? lol

Machine: ThinkPad E14 gen 2, 16 gb ram, 512 gb Iris Xe graphics

Tried running wuthering waves, it ran but very laggy, and laptop chassis became hot, although cpu temp was around 70-75°C .

I am new on arch and installed MATE today, the wifi icon is missing, what to do?

Resolved, I tried yay opencl-amd and it offered me an identical package from the regular aur. Not sure why pacman was trying to pull it from the chaotic aur by default, that one installed fine and Davinci now opens...

----------

Hi all,

I just installed Davinci Resolve and it is complaining about "unsupported GPU processing mode" and there are none in the list to select manually.

I found that the likely cause is the fact that I am missing opencl on my system, no idea why that might be but it seems to be the case.

Anyway when I try the usual: sudo pacman -S opencl-amd
It finds chaotic-aur/opencl-amd 1:10.0.0.0-1

When I key 'y' to get the package, I get "opencl-amd-1:10.0.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst failed to download" followed by a bunch of 404 and 503 errors for the various sources.

Chaotic-AUR is listed in my pacman.conf file.

Is this something I can resolve or is this an issue with the AUR?

Where else can I get this file from?

im so sorry i dont know what to do

Hi everyone!

I've always wanted to install Arch Linux on my PC, but I've always been discouraged by having to do everything through the terminal since I don't understand it very well.

I would like to install Arch Linux in dual-boot with Windows, and I'm looking for a simple, up-to-date tutorial or guide, suitable even for someone who isn't a distro veteran.

Because of this, is there an easier method to install Arch in dual-boot with Windows without causing problems?

There has been a COSMIC desktop release a week ago and I don't see new version in repos.

Usually it's available in 1-2 days.

Anyone knows what's going on?

Hey! I recently started using Linux and I wanted to install Arch. I'm confused on what packages are specifically required and what packages I can use for my slightly low end laptop. I only have around 200 GB of storage on my SSD and 8 GB of ram. Any help?

Hi all. Anthropic ships Claude Desktop for Linux as a .deb, and I wanted it on Arch without repackaging it. So I wrote a small installer and figured it might be useful to someone else too.

What it does:

• Downloads the latest official .deb from downloads.claude.ai and installs it into ~/Apps/claude-desktop, rootless and self-contained.
• Verifies it against Anthropic's own repo signing key, which is pinned in the script. It checks the full chain (signed InRelease, then the Packages hash, then the .deb hash) and stops before installing if anything doesn't match.
• Sets up the menu entry, a claude-desktop command, icons and the claude:// handler.
• Gets Cowork (the QEMU micro-VM feature) working on Arch: it installs qemu-system-x86 and edk2-ovmf if missing and adds two compatibility symlinks. That's the only part that uses sudo, and only when something is missing.
• Works on x86_64 and aarch64, and supports parallel installs (handy for a beta).

The AUR packages are a great option, and if you already use an AUR helper they may suit you better. This just covers a slightly different niche: home-folder install, straight from Anthropic's signed repo.

It's a curl | bash one-liner, but please read install.sh first. It's short and commented, and the README shows how to check the pinned key yourself with gpg --show-keys.

Repo: https://github.com/vcostin/claude-desktop-archinstall

Full disclosure: I built this with a lot of help from AI (Claude), and I wanted to be upfront about that. Unofficial, not affiliated with Anthropic. Feedback and issues are welcome.

I have a Caps Lock delay on Arch with KDE Plasma 6.7.5 on Wayland. Caps Lock takes effect after a noticeable pause, so when I type quickly with Caps Lock I get mixed case ("HEllo" style). It happens in every app, native Wayland and XWayland alike.

I know there are several fixes online for this. Here's what I tried and what I found:

• Custom XKB "instant" option (custom:instant_caps in ~/.config/kxkbrc, a symbols file in ~/.config/xkb/symbols). This is the approach from the KDE Discuss thread. xkbcli compile-keymap shows the correct definition, and I logged out and back in. The delay is still there.
• keyd with an identity mapping (capslock = capslock). Nothing changed, so the input path before XKB is not the cause.
• Replacing the system capslock symbols file (the linux-capslock-delay-fix approach). I didn't apply it, because it needs chmod 777 on a system file and it's the same XKB logic as the option above.
• X11 xkbcomp runtime patch (the Linux-CapsLock-Delay-Fixer script). I didn't apply it, because it modifies the X server keymap through $DISPLAY, and on Wayland KWin owns the keymap.

What I've ruled out:

• TTY is fine. Ctrl+Alt+F3 has no delay, so the hardware and kernel are not the cause.
• No remapper or virtual keyboard. No IBus, fcitx, maliit, or KWin input method is active.
• Caps Lock config is loaded. The xkbcli output matches the intended definition, and I logged out and back in.

Questions:

1. Has anyone seen a Caps Lock delay on Plasma 6.7 Wayland, and did a kwin version or setting fix it?
2. Is there a KWin or Plasma setting for Caps Lock timing that I've missed?
3. Does anyone with the same symptom on Hyprland, GNOME, or Sway see it too? That would help narrow it to KWin or Plasma.

Thanks.

If you use / have used arch with nix, what’s your experience like? I have this sudden urge to go arch minimal and then layer nix on top (coupled with flathub for gui apps) but I’m unsure of the issues I might run into longer term. While I love arch, I do want a more archived os that allows me to clean install every now and then but restore the applications I had with relative ease.

I’m currently using arch with hyprland (caelestia shell) and using pacman for most part with flathub for apps I can’t find on pacman (and 3-4 AUR packages outside of caelestia) but I like to experiment with the system and end up clean installing once a month or so (in learning phase so I mess up more often)

Hello,

I have recently installed Arch on my new laptop. I am a Linux beginner but have been able to solve most of my issues so far using various online resources. I have been unable to solve this issue for several days however, and it concerns my safety. It is not something I'm willing to leave to chance again. Overheating lithium batteries are no joke.

Hardware:

- Laptop: HP Omen 16-ap0022no

- BIOS/UEFI version: F.08

- Kernel: 7.2.9-arch1-1

- Bootloader: systemd-boot 262-1-arch, stub=same

What happened:

Yesterday my laptop was powered off in a plastic bag, in my backpack, next to my tablet. Luckily I have installed an alarm app which notifies me whenever the tablet's battery is overheated. The tablet's battery had reached an internal temperature of 45°C, which is almost enough to trigger thermal emergency shutdown. The plastic bag had almost melted. When I started the laptop I was able to confirm that the CPU usage was virtually non-existent, stable around 2% after booting, but the temperature was over 85°C. I quickly looked into how to control the fans manually, put them on max for 5 min and then everything was fine.

It seems the laptop is not shutting down correctly, and it creates a dangerous situation where something is generating heat but the fans do not respond (while in this "off" state).

Things that do not work:

- "shutdown now"

- "systemctl poweroff"

- "poweroff"

- "sudo systemctl poweroff --force --force"

Pressing and holding the power button does not seem to work either, however, this is hard to confirm due to the reason below.

What has made the troubleshooting difficult is that I only notice the problem by the fact that heat has built up over a longer period of time. This is making it difficult to find the root cause. My only reliable way of shutting the laptop off is to leave it on until the battery dies. The battery is very difficult to remove from the chassis, making this way of shutting off in an emergency difficult too.

Worth mentioning too is that whenever I start it again after a "shutdown" I see the kernel start and I have to log in anew. It is a normal startup, not a startup as if it was waking from sleep. My own theory is that some firmware command is not sent to the hardware, which leads to the CPU (or something else) generating heat without the fans being active or able to compensate. This is scary because it also makes me doubt whether emergency thermal shutdown conditions would work from the hardware side of things. Another possibility is that it is rebooting itself, but I have not heard the fans whir and have not seen anything like that in practice.

Lastly I want to mention that I see this as a learning opportunity. I am not looking for a quick solution, I would like to understand how to troubleshoot these issues myself, I am simply wary of "trial and error" in a situation like this. Much rather than a few terminal commands to paste, I would appreciate tips on how to troubleshoot and log this in a good way, and explanations of why I should check something are very welcome.

Thank you!

I have installed Arch with KDE Plasma multiple times up to this point, until recently when I tried installing Plasma on the latest download of Arch.

After I installed arch, I install KDE Plasma with the default packages, however I get the following error after everything is done installing (sorry if there is some rule about personal info, it is in the error message itself and I mean no harm. I just want to post the error as is):

error: libnotify: signature from "Jan Alexander Steffens (hetfig) jan.steffens@gmail.com" is invalid

:: File /var/chache/pacman/pkg/libnotify-0.8.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).

Do you want to delete it? [Y/n]

I tried running "sudo pacman -Syy" and "sudo pacman -Scc" before running "sudo pacman -Sy plasma" again but got the same result.

When I set my brightness to minimum , it is still bright, it could go lower on windows, issue is eye strain otherwise I was ignoring it , not limited to arch this happened when I was using Fedora Hyprland as well and now Arch Hyprland

DEVICE: /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl1

brightness: 655

actual_brightness: 1848

max_brightness: 65535 (rn my brightness is at lowest )

❯ journalctl -b -k | grep -iE 'brightness curve|amdgpu.*backlight'

Oct 13 09:35:46 archlinux kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: [drm] Using custom brightness curve

I had a pair of Fifine H6 usb headphones which worked fine, but they failed so I got a replacement. Now i have an issue with a missmatch between master volume, and the actual volume of the headphones. So 0% headphones is 54% master and 100% headphones is 100% master. Even when i change the volume of the headphones in alsamixer, the master volume automatically updates the volume.

I have arch already since about half a year with no problems, but today it had a lot of random 1 sec Freeze's. So I installed linux-lts. Then rebooted, but it didn't turn on. Every time i rebooted it put me in bios.

Then I chrooted with my arch-live-usb and tried to pacman -Syu and it worked ,but didn't help. I also tried grub-mkconfig, but I think it only made the config for the usb, although I was on in chroot.

I managed to deleted linux-lts, also didn't help.

Thank for helping me in advance.

i am a newbie guys help me i searched over ai and wasted time but no use

Installed Arch using archinstall, selected default networking, but there's no internet.

• VirtualBox: NAT
• Interface: enp0s3
• systemd-networkd: active
• Interface status: unmanaged
• No IP address or default route
• ping 1.1.1.1: Network unreachable
• dhcpcd and nano: not installed

How can I fix this without reinstalling Arch?

I have a install script that wipes the disk and creates a fresh GPT partition table every run. The problem is since the partition table is recreated, the ESP gets a new partition GUID, but grub-install doesn't update the existing boot entry. It prints:

grub-install: info: EFI already registered: path = `\EFI\GRUB\grubx64.efi'.
grub-install: warning: GRUB already registered with EFI a `\EFI\GRUB\grubx64.efi', not modifying configuration.
Use efibootmgr to check your boot configuration.

So Boot0000 still points at the old partition:

# efibootmgr output
Boot0000* GRUB HD(1,GPT,79645a6f-da86-46d4-b0f6-376696ea7d95,0x800,0x200000)/\EFI\GRUB\grubx64.efi

# blkid -s PARTUUID -o value /dev/nvme0n1p1 output 
1e6a0ea3-669b-4849-80a4-a1970f2d71bb

as you can see they are different.

Is there a supported way to make grub-install replace the existing entry, or is deleting it first with efibootmgr -b XXXX -B the expected approach now? Is this intended in 2.16, or worth reporting upstream.

Or is there an alternative bootloader that I can use.

Hello, total newbie here, I've used linux a decent bit but never done a proper install before, used debian on a RaspberryPi, WSL, etc.
I installed Arch on my laptop and managed to accidentally overwrite my Windows install, annoying but feels like a right of passage and I'm not too fussed, no major files lost.

I then followed a tutorial and made careful use of AI to help me through the install (fact checked what it said against docs where I could don't worry). I now have a setup I'm reasonably happy with; Hyprland looks nice and is customised a little, I used this LINK install tool for adding a variety of pieces of software for a 'minimal install'.

Now I am having some issues; when I close the lid of my laptop and reopen it, the display is frozen for a while ~30-60 seconds and nothing I have tried has been able to fix it.

This has gotten me thinking, since I know a relatively little amount and this is a pretty fresh install, should I start again and install everything manually so I actually understand my setup? For example I know I am using Noctalia but I only kind of understand WHAT that is. When I am looking up fixes I don't know whether it is a Hyprland fix or an Arch fix or something else. I look for config files and then find out I should use Noctalia's settings page.

Any input would be greatly appreciated,
I use Arch btw.

After updating my Arch installation the VLC GUI failed to start (even after a full reboot).

qvlc -vv showed:

[...]
[000055b517fd33a0] main interface debug: looking for interface module matching "qt": 15 candidates
[000055b517fd33a0] main interface debug: no interface modules matched
[000055b517fd33a0] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[000055b517f105d0] main libvlc error: interface "default" initialization failed
[000055b517f105d0] main libvlc debug: exiting
[...]

I was able to fix it by downgrading back to version "3.0.23_2-16". I'm using the Niri window manager without X support.
Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me?

Update:
It has been confirmed, that VLC 3.0.24-1 work on other Arch machines and this is an only me problem. After digging a bit in the source code it is possible that VLC 3.0.24 simply may not work on my Wayland only setup (see commit: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/commit/04d8fcb923dcab281755c1a8dd07b6c2e1fc2ea1). Since I use Niri without "xwayland-satellite" VLC has no X output as fallback.

I’m running hyprland in arch with the instalator caelestia, i think that i have a problem with the CPU heat. Is it normal to reach 90°C when coping my home directori to an external HDD? If it isn’t how can i solve it?

EDIT: This has been resolved. Within the first minute of this post, there were already multiple helpful comments. Thanks to everyone who commented.

Usually, pacman -Syu works perfectly. But today was an exception. Whenever I try to use it, I see this error message: Total Download Size: 1382.89 MiB Total Installed Size: 4760.15 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 32.07 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y error: Partition / too full: 359207 blocks needed, 69130 blocks free error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

After trying the command a few more times, I gave up and decided to open Thunar to see how much disk space was left. Somehow, as of now, my file system only has around 270.1 megabytes left. My desktop has around 642.3 gigabytes left.

The last time I updated my system was around a week ago. Before that, Flatpak showed a similar error. There wasn't enough disk space left. However, unlike now, I was still able to update my system.

I'm not sure how this is even possible. I only use lightweight software. Examples include Vim, Krita, Firefox, FFmpeg, and VLC. I'm hesitant to "experiment", as an error on my part could ruin my system.

As I put in basically all of my posts here, thank you VERY much in advance.