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1. keys for extended punctuation PEPE ER ED ED OS OS ER ER ET To choose your desired layout simply click first on a Layout layout native to it This screen allows you to choose your key then on a Variant Variants shown will depend on the Type here to test your keyboard layout chosen Close x lt Back Foward gt Once satisfied that these details are correct click Forward to proceed to the next step Set the installation type Manjaro Installer i 6 To proceed with the auto Installation type matic and very easy installa tion method make sure that the Y Erase disc and install Manjaro automatic Warning this will delete all data on your disc Encrypt this installation for increased security automatic option has been You will be asked for the encryption key in the next step Erase disc and install Manjaro Use LVM with this installation selected Be aware that this This will set up LVM allowing you to make snapshots and change partition sizes in a straightforward way will wipe the disc you choose Set your Home in a different partition volume in the next step and erase all its data amp Manage your partitions and where to install Manjaro advanced You will be able to create delete partitions choose where to install Manjaro and also choose additional mount points Once complete click Forward This will setup your home directory in a different partition or volume
2. 15 21 lt tjonathon gt Say cheese nel 15 21 lt thyrth gt The installation pisi 15 21 lt zatherz gt cheeeeeeese Santhal 15 21 lt tnegen gt good morning A emalon shariebeth vexare afics AKBlindy alekzanther alexandros_c AlexRussia andrewhuntley Animtim Auv BillyZane Brottweiler bushy charlesay 8 cHarNe2 RECENT POSTS SEARCH November 2014 ty Ik 15 22 72 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Manjaro Linux Mozilla Firefox nl Manjaro Linux 6 If English isn t your pre manjaro org vc 8v l wf B amp B f il manjaro BLOG GETMANIARO COMMUNITY REPORT ABOUT ferred language don t WOITY There are four IRC channels dedicated to English German Professional and user friendly Linux at its MW i o and giving the linux world a new ed e and opera RC CHANNEL ENGLISH French and Russian language discussion Installing Manjaro Welcome Welcome to Manjaro Manjaro is driven by a hardworking and dedicated community During the installation this slideshow will provide a guick Introduction manjaro org irc channel Menu Y HE 15 14 Mailing list http lists manjaro org listinfo manjaro general The manjaro general The Week Of Monday 17 November 2014 Archive by thread Mozilla Firefox tete ri SEE uri je MN The manjaro general The ca manjaro org j ve Biv Y a a The Week Of Monday 17 November 2014 Archives by thread e Messages sorted by subject
3. Menu Package Manager ty t 16 01 us oa a Groups Search Repositories v Version A E chromium bsu 0 9 15 1 1 i a ax a chromium chromevox latest 1 1 15 1917 102 1 Authentication Authentication is reguired Identity jonathon bus Password Licences BSD gt Details pme an attempt at creating a Package Manager ty t 16 01 2 The packages to be installed are listed so you can check this is what you want to do When you are happy with the selection click OK and the soft ware will be downloaded and installed 3 To stop other users removing important software from the system you will have to provide an administrative password If you don t know this you can t go any further There are meth ods to reset this password if needed visit the forum or IRC channel to find out more Enter your administrative password and click OK Package Manager e JLo Search Groups State Repositories State Name chromum LJ BEE FREE chromium browser bin chromium bsu chromium chromevox Progress Downloading chromium 39 0 2171 71 1 x86_64 4 25 MiB 42 28 MiB gt Details http www chromium org Licences BSD Menu amp Package Manager Package Manager elle Search Groups State Repositories State Name is chromium Search in AUR chromium browser bin ehromium 5 5355 chromium bsu chromium chromevox chromium dev chromiu
4. HL 1250 series Properties O Duplicate Rename Delete Connected to localhost 4 Enabled Shared O View Print Queue LJ Print Settings localhost E a w FA 20 18 G Updating software After logging in you may notice a couple of pop ups informing you of software updates This is great It means your internet connec tion is working correctly and that there is new software ready and waiting for you Pamac Update Manager 61 available updates acpid 2 0 23 3 47 KiB btrfs progs 3 17 2 1 432 KiB cronie 1 4 12 1 67 KiB dbus 1 8 10 1 400 KiB flac 1 3 1 1 391 KiB flashplugin 11 2 202 424 1 8 30 MiB glibc 2 20 4 8 28 MiB gnupg 2 1 0 4 1 46 MiB grep 2 21 1 194 KiB groff 1 22 3 2 1 79 MiB gvfs 1 22 2 3 886 KiB gvfs afc 1 22 2 3 39 KiB gvfs afp 1 22 2 3 50 KiB gvfs gphoto2 1 22 2 3 41 KiB gvfs mtp 1 22 2 3 40 KiB Total download size 61 19 MiB Preferences Refresh ty t 15 44 USER GUIDE 81 9 Your printer should now show in Printer Settings where you can view the print gueue and change the printer settings Happy printing 1 Pamac s Update Manager is available from the system tray In this screenshot it has a red icon indicating there are soft ware updates An update check is performed automatically all you have to do is click Apply and any updates will proceed automatically 82 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Octopi Octopi is an alternative software manager for Manjaro It is installed wit
5. Lane Wiscombe anex Manjaro Artwork MATE Community Edition Maintainer OpenRC Team Artoo Packaging Porting Infrastructure Aaditya Bagga Documentation Testing ISOs Community and Support Ringo de Kroon Community Support and IRC Manager dicktater Community Global Moderator Esclapion LXQt Community Edition Maintainer Community Support excalibur1234 Community Support Jonathan Community Global Moderator shariebeth Community Global Moderator USER GUIDE 5 6 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Documentation Jonathon Fernyhough Editor of the User Guide 0 8 9 0 8 12 Com munity Moderation Sabras Wiki Alumni Carl Duff Community Documentation and Wiki Management Script ing and Configuration Cumali Cinnamon and Gnome Community Editions Maintainer Dan S Openbox Editions Maintainer Handy Global Moderator Wiki Contributor Community Support Joshua Strot Developer Graphics Developer Acknowledgements The awesome community on forum manjaro org and manjaro A note about Manjaro and Arch Manjaro is based on another distribution called Arch Linux As such it is also able to draw software packages from the community maintained Arch User Repository AUR However please note that Manjaro is not Arch and any enguiries about the Manjaro operating system should be directed towards the Manjaro forums and Internet Relay Chat IRC channels alone For example although Ubuntu is derived from Debian and therefore shares some simi
6. http sourceforge net projects l manjarolinux files release Test builds of Manjaro are intended to be used by developers and testers to identify any bugs or issues during the development pro cess These are not suitable for use as a main operating system by the general public However should you wish to try out a test build preferably in a virtual machine each current release can be downloaded from the from the Test Build section of the Source forge website 3 3http sourceforge net projects manjarodev files testbuild Checking a downloaded disc image for errors Before burning your downloaded disc image or using it as a virtual disc in VirtualBox we strongly recommend that you first check that 4https www virtualbox org it hasn t been corrupted The potential result of not checking first especially if you want to install Manjaro as your main operating sys tem should be obvious In the best case the installation will fail In the worst case a corrupted image will result in a corrupted installa tion To verify the integrity of the disc image you have to download the appropriate checksum file This will be available at the same place where you downloaded the disc image file For example the file manjaro 0 8 12 sha1sum txt contains checksum hashes for all the available disc image files and will have content similar to this 831df1a4e06893de7663a159f5f22ddcic386cc4 manjaro kde 0 8 10 1686 iso 89240f1527d8ef8c8f8a5 52
7. to proceed to the next step It is generally recommended that you Set your Home in a different partition volume This keeps your documents separate from the operating system files Choose your disk Manjaro Installer Automatic installation mode re WARNING This installation mode will overwrite everything on your drive Please choose the drive you want to install Manjaro on and click the button below to start the process Select drive ATA VBOX HARDDISK 322 GB dev sda v Add your user account Who are you Manjaro Installer Your name Your computer s name Pick a username Choose a password Confirm your password Jonathon manjaro Its name as it appears to other computers jonathon _ Show password Use a root password O Log in automatically A password is required to log in USER GUIDE 37 7 If you have more than one hard drive on your computer then you will need to decide which one to wipe so you can install Manjaro Once selected click Install Now to proceed to the next step 8 Now it s time to personalise your installation Enter your real name a name for your computer just enter manjaro if you can t think of one and your username Your user name will be the name of your personal account in Manjaro You will also need to enter your intended password twice Re member that the use of upper and lower case letters matters e g abc
8. Boot Manjaro Linux default This chooses the open source graphics card drivers Boot Manjaro Linux nonfree This option chooses the proprietary graphics card drivers from Nvidia or AMD If you re not sure which to use refer back to the earlier section Boot ing the Live environment Adjust your partition sizes Your computer will be set up with no free space into which Manjaro can be installed As such you need to shrink the main Microsoft Windows partition to make space To do this we will use GParted the GNOME Partition Editor manjaro OGC g gparted Run gparted m O Menu MADE 14 40 dev sda GParted GParted Edit View Device Help Delete Partition File System Used Unused Flags dev sdal a ntfs 1 95 MiB 298 05 MiB msftdata dev sda2 H fat32 Format to i 1 56 MiB 98 44 MiB msftdata A WB unknown dev sda3 Manage Flags unallocated Check Label New UUID Information O operations pending USER GUIDE 51 2 Start GParted from the ap plications menu The root password is manjaro without guotes 3 Right click on the largest NIFS partition and select Res ize Move 52 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Bl dev sda 300 00 GiB v Partition dev sdal B msftdata Minimum size 74 MiB Maximum size 306671 MiB dev sda2 B msftdata A Free space preceding MiB O dev sda3 New size MiB 204271 unallocated Free space followin
9. New Features D Chat Room a Install Manjaro software O Wiki na Mailing Lists m Install Manjaro cli ty 16 47 Mail Reader Home Mozilla Thunderbird IM Home 2 se m aa a zZ 8 Mail Reader allows you to PS Thunderbird Mail jonathon manjaro org read and send email You will m have to add your email account a die when you first run the applic Al E mur ation in a similar way to all y mail readers but once that is i View segar iaci set up you should be good to amp Create a new account go As with the web browser ED MS VE JA Na Da there are a range of choices for mail reader For example if you Q Search messages prefer Claws or Sylpheed you Manage message filters can install it Manage folder subscriptions ur Offline settings m Menu 43 Ty 17 07 Add Remove Software Package Manager le Search Groups State Repositories Name v Version browser vacuum 4 21 LATEST 37 1 0 9 15 1 1 latest 1 41 0 2224 3 1 LATEST 2 chromium 39 0 2171 71 1 The open source project behind Google Chrome an attempt at creating a http www chromium org Licences BSD ty t 15 59 USER GUIDE 67 9g The Package Manager allows you to search for install and remove software applications In this example I have searched for the Chromium web browser and am about to install it Once Ym happy with my selections I can click on the tick to con tinue There are two main software managers in Man
10. 256 72AEB1E2FCF8890689C251CAAC81A5EC52C7A286 ga Oe Ln3 3 Coll Sel0 nm 5 Default Text Once you have downloaded the checksum utility the checking process is very straightforward Simply Browse to the downloaded disc image select it and click Open The program will then calcu late the checksums for the disc image file To verify the checksum is correct open the manjaro 0 8 12 sha1sum txt in a text editor such as Notepad copy the checksum for the disc image file you have down loaded and paste it into the verification box Then click Verify If there are no problems with the disc image file the program will in form you that the hash matched http download cnet com 7http raylin wordpress com downloads md5 sha 1 checksum utility 2 Verifying the checksum in Microsoft Windows using Ray mond s MD5 amp SHA Checksum Utility To speed up the process it s probably a good idea to deselect the hashes you are not verifying Writing a disc image A disc image is not a copy and paste duplication of files it s a bit for bit copy of the raw data that makes up the files and folders of that disc This is why just copying a disc image file to a disc or USB flashdrive to begin installing won t work you ll need to use a disc burning or image writing application to translate that raw data into the files and folders Once converted the files can be used to run Manjaro in Live CD mode without having to ins
11. When you install Manjaro you will be using the stable branch This set of packages has the most testing and so is the best for most users However you may want to help test packages before they move to the stable repository sudo pacman mirrors g b testing The testing repository has packages that have been checked by the Manjaro development team to make sure they work correctly How ever the amount of testing done is much smaller than for the stable branch but this is how they get tested If you want to live on the bleeding edge you can switch to the unstable branch This is normally used by the Manjaro developers Packages from the unstable branch can cause problems so this is not something to do lightly sudo pacman mirrors g b unstable USER GUIDE 91 3 sudo pacman mirrors i 92 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 After switching branches you will need to force an update of the package lists sudo pacman Syyu If you switch away from the stable branch but want to move back it s actually pretty easy sudo pacman mirrors g b stable This will leave the newer packages on your system and these will be replaced as the stable branch catches up However if you want to force a downgrade of packages back to the stable version use sudo pacman Syyuu Fixing installation errors Occasionally an installation can go wrong The downloaded file might be corrupted or the process might be interrupted if
12. Windows earlier than Windows 7 e g Windows XP you will need to download and install third party disc burning software There are many free examples available that will be found by a web search but here are some of the most popular Name Website Video tutorial Imgburn http imgburn com http www youtube com watch v XihCQgmeGV4 CDBurnerXP http cdburnerxp se en http www youtube com watch v LxYkFdwnigI InfraRecorder http infrarecorder org The burning process for each of these applications is similar with Table 2 Third party disc burn small differences in user interface The websites listed above will ing software for Microsoft provide information about features and screenshots of the applica Windows tions themselves For a little more information about each of these applications an overview of each is available in the CD DVD Burn ing Article on the TechSupportAlert website Alternative burning 8 http www techsupportalert com software may also be found on the Download com website although TE a m http download cnet com 26 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 you will have to filter the search results to view only free applica tions It will also be worthwhile to take the time to read any reviews provided for your choice s Writing to a USB flash drive in Linux To take advantage of the faster access times and much guieter nature of a USB flash drive there are a number of methods of writing the disc image file One of
13. chromium chroi f ma i y kdebase kdialog kdebase kdialog A utility for displaying dialog boxes fro _ kdeutils kwalle kdeutils kwalletmanager Wallet Management Tool Info Files Trans Packages O To be remov O To be install 3 1 packages 0 Octopi ty 84 15 48 File View Search Transaction Tools Help IH OD Y x chromium EJ Name Confirmation x TNE The following 5 targets need to be retrieved ch ium ch EST TRENER Total download size 42 85 MiB Confirm E Run in terminal Info Files Transaction Of chromium 39 0 2171 71 1 dotconf 1 3 4 python xdg 0 25 2 snappy 1 1 1 1 V 0 To be installed 1 0 speech dispatcher 0 8 1 1 extra chromium Packages O To be removed 3 1 packages O installed M 61 v ty 15 48 USER GUIDE 87 8 Some software will have other packages it can optionally use if they are installed These optional dependencies can be selected here or ignored you can always install them later if you want to 9 The packages to be installed are listed so you can check this is what you want to do When you are happy with the selection click Yes and the soft ware will be downloaded and installed 88 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 10 Octopi will show a confirm Z O Y elk o El ation that it installed the new Version File View Search Transaction Tools Help software You can close Octopi 8 chromium bsu lt Yaourt gt 8 chromium chr
14. of the checks While the first few lines look worrying this is to be expected the program can t check disc image files that aren t there The second to last line is the important one It shows that sha1sum has successfully verified the disc image I downloaded against the checksum value in the file shalsum manjaro kde 0 8 12 1686 iso No such file or directory manjaro kde 0 8 12 1686 iso FAILED open or read USER GUIDE 21 shalsum manjaro kde 0 8 12 x86 64 iso No such file or directory manjaro kde 0 8 12 x86 64 iso FAILED open or read shalsum manjaro net 0 8 12 1686 iso No such file or directory manjaro net 0 8 12 1686 iso FAILED open or read shalsum manjaro net 0 8 12 x86 64 iso No such file or directory manjaro net 0 8 12 x86 64 iso FAILED open or read shalsum manjaro xfce 0 8 12 1686 iso No such file or directory manjaro xfce 0 8 12 1686 iso FAILED open or read shalsum manjaro xfce 0 8 12 x86 64 iso OK shalsum WARNING 7 listed files could not be read Manual verification To manually check the integrity of your downloaded file first open the downloaded manjaro 0 8 12 sha1sum txt checksum file using a text editor such as Gedit Once the checksum file has been opened and the codes are visible open up your terminal and change to the directory where your downloaded disc image is stored z n ea y Aad 1 Verifying the checksum dis ea NE Ad played in gedit against the output of sha1sum For example if y
15. the easiest is to use ImageWriter ImageWriter should be available for installation from your distri ma m y om bution s Software Center Software Manager Package Manager repositories Once Imagewriter has been downloaded and installed 2 ImageWriter ensure that your USB flash drive is plugged in before starting the https en opensuse org application SDB Live_USB_stick The process of using ImageWriter is very straightforward 1 Click on the centre icon 2 Navigate to where you downloaded the disc image file and select it 3 Ensure that your USB flash drive has been selected from the drop down menu 4 Click on the Write button 5 Once it has finished reboot your system making sure to select the ey a ae aka Tek USB flash drive as the boot device per copy MOS Hash Writing to a USB flash drive in Microsoft Windows Version 0 9 We recommend you use ImageWriter For Windows which is a free application designed to write disc images to USB flash drives as well as Compact Flash CF and Secure Digital SD cards Once Imagewriter has been downloaded and installed ensure that your 3 Windows ImageWriter http sourceforge net A o projects win32diskimager USB flash drive is plugged in before starting it If you find that ImageWriter is unable to start you might have to download Microsoft s NET 2 0 Runtime Framework This is needed by some software programs though it is normally already in
16. to your wireless network For a constantly updated version of this guide check out the wiki page User guide http wiki manjaro org index php title Graphical_ Installation Guide for Experienced Users 0 8 12 For a refresher on partitioning your disk check out the wiki pages on partitioning and partitioning scenarios Partitioning http wiki manjaro org index php title Partitioning_ Overview and Existing Partition Tables Partitioning scenarios http wiki manjaro org index php title Cfdisk Basic Partitioning Scenarios 42 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Start the advanced installation method Manjaro Installer 1 When you reach the sixth Installation type step of the installation process select Manage your partitions O Erase disc and install Manjaro automatic and where to install Man Warning this will delete all data on your disc jaro advanced and then click Forward to proceed amp Manage your partitions and where to install Manjaro advanced You will be able to create delete partitions choose where to install Manjaro and also choose additional mount points Choose your disk Manjaro Installer 2 If you have more than one Advanced installation mode hard drive on your computer select the one you want to par Device Type Mount point Label Format Size Used Flags SSD tition This example already A Ge has a partition layout but we re dev sdal ext4 dev sda2 swap swap 2G going to
17. 123 is not the same as ABC123 All done Once satisfied that these details are correct click Forward to view the installation process 38 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Installation Manjaro Installer 9 The automatic installation Installing Manjaro process is well underway While you wait for it to complete Package Management useful information about Man Manjaro has three different jaro and its community will be options for managing f packages displayed The original command line option Pacman And two different GUI options Octopi or Pamac Extracting desktop image complete Manjaro Installer 10 Once the installation has Installing Manjaro finished you will be asked if you want to restart your Customizable system Select Yes to reboot All of Manjaros versio immediately or No to close the completely customiza Manjaro Installer Confirmation exactly how you want installer and continue using the Installation finished s Do you want to restart your system now Manj aro Live environment From theming to the kernel itself it can be Installation finished Do you want to restart your system now Menu Manjaro Installer 7 Q Ze 12 53 Boot your new operating system Ma njaro Start Manjaro Linux Start non free drivers Boot from Hard Disk Hardware Detection Tool Memory Test Boot Options iso chain c32 hdo F1 Help F2 Language F3 Video
18. 7 fb64632a1160a16 manjaro kde 0 8 10 x86 64 iso 610f26bd2a909343846c1acc8dddc3e128b6dbc4 manjaro net 0 8 10 1686 iso 602758c12061221566a823fa688653 1293be545 manjaro net 0 8 10 x86 64 iso ddac 697b8c1f4ccc508d8e2ba52ad898d18aba manjaro xfce 0 8 10 1686 iso d3220e2c74f9082e0e8b366b9ffd240bfceebdeO manjaro xfce 0 8 10 x86_64 iso MDs and SHA 1 You may have seen there are two checksum files One ends sha1sum txt the other ends md5sum txt MD5 and SHA are two types of hashing algorithms the sha part of the checksum file name stands for Se cure Hash Algorithm These algorithms are used to generate a hash code unique to the disc image file The checksum file itself is just a text document that contains hash codes that should match the code generated by the MD5 or SHA 1 algorithm Copies of the file can be checked to make sure they are exactly the same if the file is changed in any way either intentionally or by corruption the code generated will be different Whilst MD5 is commonly used SHA 1 is newer and more secure 20 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 and is beginning to replace MD5 For the purpose of checking the in tegrity of the downloaded file MD5 is good enough but SHA 1 is a better solution The checking process is the same for both algorithms We recommend you use SHA 1 For more about hashing algorithms Wikipedia has lots of information 5 https en wikipedia org wiki If the code generated from the disc image matches that conta
19. 75 Manjaro Development Team The 5 Microsoft Windows 8 50 mirror 90 Octopi 82 pacman 89 pacman mirrors 91 Pamac 81 printer 77 settings 75 Switching branches 91 Terminal Emulator 65 text based installer 57 UEFI 47 Updating software 81 USB flash drive 26 Web Browser 66 Wiki 73 Writing a disc image 23 ii manjaro
20. Mode F4 Kernel English US 1024 x 768 Default Log in ji Manjaro Jonathon Enjoy the simplicity manjaro xr en_GB utf8 A 0 USER GUIDE 39 11 When you reboot if you accidentally boot from the Live CD or USB drive you used to install Manjaro you can choose Boot from Hard Disk and press lt Enter gt 12 Once Manjaro has booted enter your username and pass word and enjoy your fresh Manjaro system If you like Manjaro you might consider joining the Manjaro community on its forums or IRC channel We look forward to meeting you Using the graphical installer experienced users This guide is intended for those with sufficient technical knowledge to manually create their own partitions As such this guide focuses on providing an example of how to use the Advanced installation method in general rather than outlining the entire installation pro cess or listing all the popular partition schemes that may be used This guide also assumes you have read the Automatic installation guide steps 1 5 as these are exactly the same Where possible make sure you are connected to the internet be fore booting from your installation media into the Live environment If you have a hard wired connection via an Ethernet cable then Man jaro will automatically connect to the internet without you having to do anything Otherwise once you have booted into Manjaro s desktop you will need to select and then connect
21. O BLOG GET MANJARO REPORT ABOUT nel you will have to connect first To make sure you re hu IRC Channel man you ll have to fill in a CAPTCHA form Gv Connection details Connect to freenode IRC Nickname jonathon Channels manjaro manjaro talk Orphic raya Orphic uanswe Reload Auth to services reCAPTCHA Audio captcha Menu 8 U 1 ty b k 15 16 IRC Channel Manjaro Linux Mozilla Firefox fil IRC Channel Manjar X f manjaro org ve m KB A Gv Status manjaro manjaro talk able to talk in real time with 5 Once connected you ll be A warm welcome to the official Manjaro Linux IRC channel http forum manjaro ora https wiki manjaro org index php title lt Manjaro irc support guidelines https wiki manjaro org index php title lt Manjaro IRC www manjaro org blog Some disturb do mode nickname gR returning users register with nickserv and set enforce on W h h l Th 15 20 jonathon b9262fba gateway web freenode ip 1 has joined manjaro ChanServ peop e O Can e p ey are 15 20 lt tnegen gt yeah qt5 base the symlinks work fine Culinax Jolt2bolt 15 20 mode manjaro tv jonathon by ChanServ jonathon a really friendly bunch 15 20 lt tnegen gt thyrth what makes you not want to try arch magikfingerz 15 20 lt tjonathon gt Hi everyone ES mk 15 20 lt tjonathon gt Doing a screenshot of the web IRC for the manjaro user guide AL
22. acman will automatically detect and install these 90 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Removing software To remove a software package you need to know its name but the command is straightforward To remove Leafpad sudo pacman R leafpad It s also possible to remove a package and any dependencies it re quired when it was installed Assuming those other packages are not being used by another piece of software they will become orphan packages These serve no function other than taking up space To remove a software package with its dependencies sudo pacman Rs leafpad A package may also create configuration files Normally these are left in place so your configuration is not lost and can be reused if you install the package again However if you want to remove these configuration files too the command is sudo pacman Rns leafpad If at a later date you want to remove all orphan packages and con figuration files for packages that you removed some time ago the following command will do it sudo pacman Rns pacman Qtdq Be warned though this is an advanced command Other pacman commands It s a good idea to become familiar with the pacman commands It can be a very useful tool in case the other software managers refuse to complete an installation for example if an installation process is interrupted The pacman man page is very informational man is short for manual Man pacman To exit press q Updating the m
23. are sure an installer is not running you can delete pac man s lock file sudo rm var lib pacman db lck Then try running the install process again If a problem persists there is a series of commands that will fix most issues sudo rm f var lib pacman db lck sudo pacman mirrors g sudo pacman Syyuu sudo pacman Suu In order these commands e Remove pacman s lock file e Update the mirror list e Forces an update of the package lists and an update of any pack ages to bring them in line with the current repository state e Ensures no packages are left out of line with the current repository state To make things easier Manjaro 0 8 12 includes a command alias 4 https forum manjaro org in that runs the above four commands dex php topic 12383 0 fixit More information Remember there is plenty of information on the wiki http wiki manjaro org and discussion forum http forum manjaro org 94 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Index Add Remove Software 67 Adding a printer 77 Advanced installation 41 Automatic installation 33 branches 91 Burning to a CD DVD 24 desktop 63 Downloading 15 editions 15 errors checking for 19 Favourites 64 Features 11 File Manager 65 Fixing installation errors 92 forum 70 help 69 Installing new software 83 Introduction 11 IRC 71 Licence documentation 4 Live environment 31 Mail Reader 66 Mailing list 73 Maintaining your system
24. aro in your native language straight away 1 Boot menu Setting your language and keyboard layout First set your preferred language by pressing the lt F2 gt key The op tions available can be highlighted for selection by using the arrow keys on your keyboard In this instance English UK has been high lighted for the user Once selected press lt Enter gt to confirm and to be taken back to the boot menu Help 2 Language selection 32 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Selecting the language will also set a keyboard layout appropriate to that language for example it will select QWERTY for English and AZERTY for French If this doesn t match your layout or perhaps you have a US layout but speak German press F2 again but this time select Keyboard Pick the language that matches your keyboard layout and press lt Enter gt to confirm and return to the boot menu Choosing the drivers There are two main sets of drivers that can be used by Manjaro Free and non Free The differences are not minor and your choice can depend on your computer hardware If in doubt choose Free drivers If you want to play games choose non Free Free drivers are open source like Manjaro itself written and up drivers dated by a large community For older hardware and that with Intel based integrated graphics this is the best choice Non Free drivers are closed source written and updated only by the hardware manufacturers This is
25. ations menu Jonathon Terminal Emulator Use the command line 9 Recently Used File Manager Browse the file system AU Web Browser i Browse the web sine Mail Reader A Development Read your email Education Add Remove Software Add or remove software ins MA Games Graphics Aa Internet Jj Multimedia C Office ty 16 44 You can see that the five main software applications have an item in the Favourites menu This allows rapid access to software you most often use To add or remove an item from the Favourites menu just right click on it and select the option you want For now let s look in turn at these five applications to give an idea of what awaits you 4 Remove from Favourites Terminal Emulator Terminal jonathon manjaro File Edit View Terminal Tabs Help jonathon manjaro ls jonathonamanjaro File Manager jonathon File Manager File Edit View Go Help 3 Ihome jonathon DEVICES e File System Desktop Documents Downloads MJROO811 a m Pictures Public Zi Desktop Wastebasket NETWORK El Browse Network 9 items Free space 264 2 GB ty 16 46 Manjaro Templates ty 16 46 USER GUIDE 65 5 Terminal Emulator or terminal allows you to per form text based commands Although it initially seems unfriendly it is incredibly powerful and allows access to commands that are difficult
26. author date e More info on this list Starting Sat Nov 22 17 50 31 CET 2014 Ending Sat Nov 22 23 54 07 CET 2014 Messages 2 e manjaro general Manjaro Xfce 0 8 11 Second Release Candidate Manjaro Linux Manjaro Linux Rob McCathie e manjaro general Manjaro 0 9 0 dev Hands on Plasma 5 Manjaro Linux Manjaro Linux Manjaro Team Last message date Sat Nov 22 23 54 07 CET 2014 Archived on Sun Nov 23 00 00 12 CET 2014 e Messages sorted by subject author date e More info on this list This archive was generated by Pipermail 0 09 Mailman edition Menu gt ty DE ME 15 27 Wiki http wiki manjaro org index php title Main Page Manjaro Linux Mozilla Firefox Tegel ri UE uri ri Ma Manjaro Linux ge manjaro org ve Bv we Y Log in Page Discussion Read View source View history Search Q Main Page Main page Recent changes Random page Help v Tools What links here i IMANJARO LINUX Printable version Welcome to the Manjaro Wiki Permanent link If you land on this page by trying to access http manjaro org amp please follow this guide Page information Contents English e tina Deutsch Francais Tiirkce Espa ol Polski Portugu s Magyar Bahasa Indonesia Pyccruii O zbek Bunrapceru RAB 30 italiano Svenska Contents hide 1 What s New The Latest Changes 2 Getting Started 2 1 Overview 2 2 On Line and Support 2 3 Get Manjar
27. change your network connection set Notifications Customise how notifications appear on your screen Pidgin Internet Messenger Chat over IM Supports AIM Google Talk Jabber Menu Package Manager Ty 16 13 Octopi The process of installing new software using Octopi is very similar to Pamac Octopi 7 Octopi allows easy access File View Search Transaction Tools Help 8 waarmam TE to the available software Do Name Version note that the search process chromium bsu 9 15 1 lt Yaourt gt is slightly different to Pamac File Sy chromium chromevox latest 1 base eren as you can select whether to calligra cinnamon applets dtang search by package name or Info Files Transaction Output News Usage package description Once chromium you ve found the package you The open source project behind Google Chrome an attempt at creating a safer faster and more stable browser want to install right click and URL http www chromium org sion ee select Install then click the Licences BSD Depends On gtk2 nss alsa lib xdg utils bzip2 libevent libxss icu libexif libgcrypt ttf font systemd dbus flac tick in the top left corner to 3 1 packages O installed M 61 v confirm ty 15 48 File Sy A La Home File View Search Transaction Tools Help 2 0 x chromium Name repe chromium Optional Deps 8 chromium bsu Name Description 8
28. e arrow next to the red icon and then click on Install Installing new software There s a huge amount of software freely available in the Manjaro repositories If you are connected to the internet you can download and install as many of this as you want at no cost No advertising is embedded no data gathering performed you get just the software application unlike with some other operating systems Pamac Package Manager e ile Search Groups State Repositories State Name v Version Y chromium a aii K leave Vera degli ar m Deselect LATEST 37 1 0 9 15 1 1 latest 1 41 0 2224 3 1 LATEST 2 chromium 39 0 2171 71 1 The open source project behind Google Chrome an attempt at creating a http www chromium org Licences BSD ty 15 59 USER GUIDE 83 1 Pamac allows easy access to the available software All software applications in the repositories are free no need to worry about purchase or licens ing costs Once you ve found the package you want to install right click and select Install then click the tick in the top left corner to confirm 84 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Search Groups State Repositories State Name v Version TL A chromium a chromium bsu 0 9 15 1 1 Transaction Summary 6 s latest 1 Transaction Summary 1 15 1917 102 1 To install snappy 1 1 1 1 python xdg 0 25 2 dotconf 1 3 4 speech dispatcher 0 8 1 1 chromium 39 0 2171 71 1 bme an attempt at creating a pu
29. e certain software or desktop environments pre installed This user manual assumes you are using the Xfce version and all screenshots will be from this However the installation pro cess and other software works in exactly the same way The edition names should give a clear indication of the desktop environment they install Unless you have a strong preference we suggest you stick with the Xfce version You can of course change later or install other desktop environments too There are several main community editions Cinnamon GNOME MATE Netbook Openbox Openbox OpenRC and PekWM Downloading a disc image Every release of Manjaro is available for download whether the current stable release upcoming test builds or previous versions for historical interest When you visit the download page you will find a link to each of the three main editions in both 32 and 64 bit versions as well as a checksum file for each A checksum can be used to check the integrity of the disc image file you download to make sure it hasn t been corrupted during the download Stable releases of Manjaro are intended to be used by the general public so this will be the appropriate choice for the majority of users The current Manjaro release can always be downloaded from the Get Manjaro page http manjaro org get manjaro Each of the stable releases starting from 0 8 0 can also be downloaded from the Stable Release section of the Sourceforge website
30. e disc image file directly as a virtual disc Table 1 Manjaro Edition disc image file sizes If your system will boot from a USB device and you have one of sufficient capacity that you can erase we recom mend the use of a USB flash drive over traditional CD DVD media 24 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Burning to a CD DVD in Linux If not already installed several different software burning applic ations should be available for installation from your distribution s Software Center Software Manager Package Manager repos itories Popular burners include XFBurn K3b and Brasero Which one you choose is entirely down to personal choice though your operating system will usually install one suitable for your desktop environment To simplify things a little the following steps for burn ing your downloaded Manjaro disc image use Brasero Burning using Brasero 1 Insert a blank CD DVD 2 Start the Brasero software burner 3 Click the Burn Image Burn an existing CD DVD image to disc button to open the Image Burning Setup window 4 Click the button beneath the title Select a disc image to write to open up your file manager Locate and double click the down loaded disc image file to load it Upon automatically returning to the Image Burning Setup window note that the disc image file is now listed as the disc image to write 5 The blank CD DVD you inserted should be automatically lis ted underneath the title Select a disc to
31. e installation begins make Unsquashing Naa Ta A rak certain that your partition lay Please wait out is correct otherwise the process will fail The installa tion can take a little bit of time so make a cup of tea Configure system tej Terminal File Edit View Terminal Tabs Help 5 The fourth item allows full control of your new system s Configuration configuration The options are SN Change root password quite extensive Setup User Setup user account s Setup Locale Change locale optional Setup Keymap Change vconsole keymap optional Confia System Edit system configuration optional Back Main menu Cancel 60 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Install bootloader tej Terminal File Edit View Terminal Tabs Help 6 Before rebooting you must make sure to install the boot loader to the correct drive Without this you won t be able to load Manjaro Install a bootloader J EU Install GRUB2 needed to boot None If you know what you re doing lt Cancel gt Quit o Terminal File Edit View Terminal Tabs Help 7 The final step exits the in staller You can continue using the Live environment or re boot now to use your freshly installed Manjaro Installation finished Part III Welcome to Manjaro The Manjaro desktop Congratulations on installing Manjaro Linux Once you have logged in you will be presented with the Manjaro desktop The Welcome Screen will load automa
32. e most up to date system possible without the need to regularly install a new operating system release 12 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 e Access to the Arch User Repositories e The versatility to be shaped and moulded in every respect to suit personal taste and preference However Manjaro boasts a few extra features of its own including e A simplified user friendly installation process e Automatic detection of your computer s hardware e g graphics cards e Automatic installation of the necessary software e g graphics drivers for your system e Dedicated software repositories that deliver fully tested and stable software packages e Support for the easy installation and use of multiple kernels 1 Welcome to Manjaro Manjaro Welcome manjaro Welcome to Manjaro and thank you for joining our community We the Manjaro Developers hope that you will enjoy using Manjaro as much as we enjoy building it The links below will help you get started with your new operating system So enjoy the experience and don t hesitate to send us your feedback Documentation Support Project p Read Me Forums 0 Get Involved PO Chat Room t Build Manjaro gt lt Mailing Lists pa Donations Home O Show this dialog on startup Close ty 02 59 Part I Getting Manjaro Downloading Manjaro Manjaro editions There are three official editions of Manjaro available for download as well as a number of unofficial commu
33. es while burning and in particular avoid heavy disc access If the burner software can t read the disc image file guickly enough the burning process can be interrupted USER GUIDE 25 Image Burner program This makes the process of burning to a disc very straightforward 1 Insert a blank CD DVD into your disc drive 2 Start Windows Disc Image Burner For more information about this program see http windows 3 Click Burn microsoft com en gb windows7 burn a cd or dvd from an iso file Go Computer ramdisk VBOXSVR R Organize v ej Burn disc image v New folder Hss I indo S Disc Image Burner Ye Favorites Name Date modified Type Size in Microsoft Windows 7 manjaro openbox 0 8 8 0 909 shal sum 05 01 2014 15 02 SUM File B zd Libraries manjaro openbox 0 8 8 0 909 x86 64 iso 31 12 2013 08 14 Disc Image File MD5_SHA_Checksum_Utility exe 05 01 2014 16 19 Application Y Homegroup Windows Disc Image Burner Fe File iki Computer Disc image file manjaro openbox 0 8 8 0 909 x86 64 iso File a Network Disc burner F Status A disc burner wasn t found Make sure that a burner is installed properly and you have the appropriate permissions to burn a disc Verify disc after burning raja manjaro openbox 0 8 8 0 909 x86 64 iso Date modified 31 12 2013 08 14 Date created 05 01 2014 15 35 Disc Image File Size 656 MB Burning using a third party application For versions of Microsoft
34. for you now Fee KA Use this device for boot loader installation ATA VBOX HARDDISK 322 GB dev sda x Close X lt Back 44 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 A two partition scenario Manjaro Installer Advanced installation mode Device Mount point Label Format Size Used Flags v dev sda 322G 2 Undo Mount checklist Root pei Use this device for boot loader installation ATA VBOX HARDDISK 322 GB dev sda v Close lt Back Partition 1 Root and Boot Manjaro Installer Advanced installation mode Create partition Size 20480 MB Type Primary Device w dev sda o O Extended Location Beginning of this space O End of this space Use as ext4 v Label optional a Root Cancel ATA VBOX HARDDISK 322 GB dev sda v Use this device for boot loader Close x lt Back 5 In this scenario we will cover the most common partition lay out Root and Boot files will be in a single partition and Home in a second partition to keep documents separate from sys tem files We ll add an optional swap partition in the remaining space As there are only three partitions total each can be Primary partitions With the free space highlighted we ll click Add to create the first partition 6 The first partition will con tain the system and boot files and boot As such we must allocate enough s
35. g MiB 102400 gt Align to MiB Cancel gt Resize Move O operations pending Once you are happy with the new partition layout on the menu go to Edit Apply all operations There will be a confirmation message to continue you must click Apply The resizing process will take some time Perhaps another chance to get a cup of tea Once it has completed close GParted and then run Install Manjaro Linux 4 Make space at the end of the partition for Manjaro Ideally this should be at least 50GB but you can t shrink the parti tion smaller than its used space minimum size When you re happy with the new size click Resize Move Start the advanced installation process Manjaro Installer Installation type 3 Erase disc and install Manjaro automatic Warning this will delete all data on your disc o amp Manage your partitions and where to install Manjaro advanced You will be able to create delete partitions choose where to install Manjaro and also choose additional mount points Manjaro Installer Advanced installation mode Device Type Mount point Label Format Size Used Flags SSD v dev sda 322G dev sdal ntfs RECOVERY 314M 2M dev sda2 fat32 EFI 104M 1M dev sda3 134M Ob NE dev sda4 ntfs 21 Ob Mount checklist NN AT EFI boot efi m i w Use this device for boot loader installation TRENE Close x Back USER GUIDE 53 5 When
36. generally the best choice for newer hardware with AMD or Nvidia dedicated graphics At the time of writing non Free drivers are the best choice for Nvidia graphics and AMD graphics newer than the 8000 series For older AMD and Nvidia hardware the Free drivers work very well For AMD graphics older than the HD5000 series Free drivers are the best choice To start Manjaro with Free drivers choose Start Manjaro Linux from the boot menu bas ame nial 1024 x 768 Default To start Manjaro with non Free drivers choose Start non free drivers from the boot menu 3 Start Manjaro Linux Welcome to Manjaro Once you select Start Manjaro will boot up You may see a lot of oe scrolling text don t worry this shows the system is working After s menjaro a little while assuming your hardware is compatible you will be presented with a Live desktop environment and a nice friendly wel come screen The welcome screen gives some links to common tasks document ation like the thing you re reading now and the support channels There are also links to the installation programs Don t worry if you close the welcome screen you can load it again and all the links are 4 Welcome to Manjaro also present elsewhere in the menus Using the graphical automatic installer This guide is intended for those with limited technical knowledge and experience With these steps it won t be necessary to manually partition your computer s hard di
37. h the Openbox and KDE editions as it is based on the OT toolset It also has a very funky icon File Sy N u Home Confirmation The following 65 targets need to be retrieved Total download size 62 03 MiB Confirm Run in terminal acpid 2 0 23 3 btrfs progs 3 17 2 1 cronie 1 4 12 1 dbus 1 8 10 1 flac 1 3 1 1 flashplugin 11 2 202 424 1 glibc 2 20 4 Octopi File View Search Transaction Tools Help Version Oad data al7 1 6tunnel 0 11rc2 6 Obase 6 5 a2jmidid 8 1 a2ps 4 14 6 rn aA 7a Info Files Transaction Output News Usage There are 61 outdated packages on your system Name Outdated version Available version acpid 2 0 23 2 2 0 23 3 btrfs progs 3 17 1 1 3 17 2 1 cronie 1 4 11 2 1 4 12 1 Abs m 1000 71 10101 7510 1 packages 1033 installed M 61 v ty 15 46 i Groups Display all groups OO lt Yaourt gt base base devel calligra cinnamon applets dlang ty A 15 47 2 Octopi s update notifier is available from the system tray In this screenshot it has a red icon indicating there are soft ware updates An update check is performed automatically all you have to do is click Yes and any updates will proceed automatically 3 Alternatively you can load Octopi s full interface The red star indicated there are updated available and the number shows how many To show what is available click on the red icon To install the updates click on th
38. he Thus Installer is beta software Thus is pre release beta software that is under active development It does not yet properly handle RAID btrfs subvolumes or other advanced setups Please proceed with caution as data loss is possible If you find any bugs please report them at http bugs manjaro org Manjaro Installer The selected location will be used to help select the system locale Normally this should be the country where you live This is a shortlist of locations based on the language you selected Country territory or area English AU Australia English BW Botswana English CA Canada English DK Denmark English HK Hong Kong English IE Ireland English NZ New Zealand 1 If you selected your preferred language before booting then it should already be selected for you Once selected click Forward to proceed to the next step 2 The locations available to choose will depend upon the language you selected in the previous step Once selected click Forward to proceed to the next step Check the minimum requirements Manjaro Installer System Check For best results please ensure that this computer w has at least 6GB available storage space Vis connected to a power source w is connected to the Internet This highly depends on which desktop environment you choose so you might need more space oj oe NE Set your timezone Manjaro Installer W
39. here are you Zone Europe Region London v Use Network Time Protocol for clock synchronization a oe NE USER GUIDE 35 3 Your computer will auto matically be checked to make sure that Manjaro can safely be installed This will include checking that enough storage space is available Once satisfied that your system meets the minimum reguire ments necessary click Forward to proceed to the next step Although the absolute minimum allowed is 6 Gigabytes at least 15 Giga bytes of free space is recommended While it s not necessary to have an active internet connection to install Manjaro it s highly recommended 4 To set your timezone either click on the map or pick from the menus Zone is the con tinent you live on Region is the city closest to where you live We recommend keeping Network Time Protocol syn chronisation enabled so your clock will never be wrong This relies on an active internet connection however 36 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Choose your keyboard layout Manjaro Installer 5 Just because you live in a cer Select your keyboard layout tain location that doesn t mean you have to use the keyboard Layouts Variants Turkey United Kingdom 7 Turkmenistan United Kingdom Colemak USA United Kingdom Dvorak board layout and variant such Ukraine United Kingdom Dvorak UK Punctuation as Dvorak or one with dead United Kingdom United Kingdom Extended Winkeys
40. iii monjaro user guide 0 8 12 MANJAROLINUX 0 8 12 USER GUIDE THE MANJARO DEVELOPMENT TEAM Copyright O 2015 the Manjaro Development Team Licensed under the Attribution ShareAlike 4 0 International Licence the Licence you may not use this file except in compliance with the License You may obtain a copy of the Licence at https creativecommons org licenses by sa 4 0 legalcode Unless reguired by applicable law or agreed to in writing software distributed under the Licence is distributed on an as is basis without warranties or conditions of any kind either express or implied See the Licence for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the Licence The source code for this documentation can be downloaded from https github com manjaro manjaro user guide The Manjaro Development Team Core Team Alexandre A Arnt Developer Guillaume Benoit Server Manager Developer Packager Ramon Buldo Developer Packager Alexandru lanu Systems Integrator Packager Lukasz Matysiak Developer Rob McCathie Systems Integrator Packager Wlad Meixner Web Developer Web Consultant Mateusz Mikolajczyk Developer Demiray Muhterem Manjaro KDE Edition Maintainer Turkish IRC and web support Manjaro Artwork Philip Miiller Project Leader Project Management and Coordination Mirrors Manager Packager Developer Web Developer Roland Singer Founder Designer Developer Web Developer Pack ager Artwork
41. ined RE m in the checksum file then the disc image file is fine If the two codes don t match then it means that the disc image file has changed in some way most likely due to being corrupted You can think of it like someone using a password to identify who they are if they provide the wrong password then something is probably wrong From this point on we ll assume you are using the file manjaro 0 8 12 sha sum txt Test builds have a slightly different arrangement Instead of a single file with all checksums each disc image file Checking in Linux has its own associated checksum file If you re running the test build I m sure gt na you can work it out Automatic verification The program shaisum can automatically compare the checksum of the disc image you downloaded against the value in the text file The process is very straightforward but the end result might look a little worrying For this example I first open a terminal and change to the direct ory where I downloaded the disc image file and checksum file I use the command 1s to check which files are present jonathon box cd download jonathon box download 1s manjaro 0 8 12 shalsum txt manjaro xfce 0 8 12 x86_64 1so As you can see I have downloaded the 64 bit Xfce edition Next I run the shaisum program to check against the values in the checksum file jonathon box download shaisum c manjaro 0 8 12 shalsum txt The next set of lines show the result
42. ing the Live environment Booting the Live environment whether from CD DVD or USB flash drive will give you an overview of the Manjaro Linux environment and let you test how well it will run on your machine This is very useful to check before committing to install a new operating system For best results you should be connected to the Internet If you have a wired Ethernet connection and plug in before booting the Live environment Manjaro will automatically set up a connection If you have a wireless Wi Fi connection you can set up the wireless network once you have reached the Manjaro desktop The method of selecting the boot device varies considerably across machines You may need to hold one key for example lt Esc gt lt Del gt or lt F10 gt to select the boot device Or you may need to set the op tion in your BIOS If you re not sure your machine s user guide will have detail of the method you need alternatively a web search will also guickly turn up the answer The boot menu When you boot from your installation media CD DVD or USB flash drive you should be presented with the Manjaro boot screen This screen provides several options to help get the best experience from the Live environment It is possible at this stage to set your preferred language and key board layout before using Manjaro This means that you will be able Help Lanquage Video Mode Kernel English US 1024 x 768 Default to use and install Manj
43. installation ATA VBOX HARDDISK 322 GB dev sda v Close x lt Back Install now Installing on a UEFI system UEFI is the commonly agreed on name for both the EFI amp UEFI stand ards which merged It does not include the old EFI v1 or Apple s own non standard version of EFT If you have a relatively new computer e g post 2012 it will prob ably have UEFI support it certainly will if it came with Microsoft Windows 8 or later installed At this point in time installing a Linux distribution on a UEFI system can be tricky Thankfully Manjaro s installer Thus does a good job of correctly setting up everything However there are still important considerations especially when it comes to the partitioning table Booting in UEFI mode The most important step is to ensure that your machine does not have Secure Boot enabled Only a very limited number of operating systems will boot with this enabled You must disable this in your BIOS before proceeding if you don t know how to do this please refer to your computer s user manual Once you have booted the system from the Live CD USB you will be presented with the Manjaro boot selection screen It has two main options for the drivers it will use either Free or non Free The main difference is the lack of any option for language or keyboard layout However this is actually not that important When you run Thus and choose your language and keyboard layout this wil
44. irror list Manjaro Linux packages are hosted on a number of servers across the world these servers mirror the official Manjaro software repository When you first install Manjaro it will try to work out which server is closest to you so that software downloads complete as quickly as possible Sometimes though the list of mirrors can get old New mirrors can become available and some mirrors are removed Updates to Manjaro will regularly trigger an update of the mirror list but some times it s useful to do this manually To update the mirror list use the following command sudo pacman mirrors g This will test the speed of all currently available mirrors and set your machine to use the best for you Once this command has completed you should force a download of the package lists sudo pacman Syyu Choosing mirrors If you would like more control over which mirrors to use run the command sudo pacman mirrors i This will allow you to select which mirror or mirrors to try when checking for software updates and downloading new packages It s normally best to choose mirrors that are geographically close to you s0 if you re in Canada then Canadian and US servers are generally a good bet Of course you re free to choose whichever you want To reset back to an automatic choice run this command sudo pacman mirrors g c all Remember to force a download of the package lists to use the new mirrors Switching branches
45. is ___ Announcements Package amp Security Advisories 7597 Posts News announcements and advisories from the development team and forum admins 1 321 Topics 27 November 2014 21 33 40 Child Boards Stable Updates Testing Updates Unstable Updates Technical Issues and Assistance https forum manjaro org index php PHPSESSID an952j7ogakou10lonasffi8n3 amp action zregister ty i 15 14 Manjaro Linux Mozilla Firefox manjaro org ve v l tia A iii manjaro BLOG GET MANIARO Professional and user friendly Linux at its EAN tos NE pr RE Des sali s NA ZANA ARA Aa ee EVOIVINE ana giving tne linux world a new face and Pera Installing Manjaro Welcome Welcome to Manjaro Manjaro is driven by a hardworking and dedicated community During the installation this slideshow will provide a guick introduction www manjaro fr forum Menu 8 ty dE 15 13 2 The Manjaro discussion forum is a great place to find out more about the project You can connect at any time leave questions or replies and come back to them later 3 If English isn t your pre ferred language you can try one of the other forums There s an up to date list on the Manjaro homepage USER GUIDE 71 IRC channels http manjaro org irc channel IRC Channel Manjaro Linux Mozilla Firefox til IRC Channel Manjar x kami manjaro org vaj Bi TB y 4 To talk on the IRC chan l manjaro MANJAR
46. it system and although a 32 bit operating system will run on a 64 bit system it won t be able to make full use of its resources Try to make sure that you download the appropriate disc image for your system To download Manjaro go to this web address http manjaro org get manjaro When you purchase retail software it generally comes on a disc whether a CD or a DVD A Live CD has a version of the operating system that will run without needing to be installed This is a feature of most GNU Linux and BSD based operating systems 16 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Manjaro Welcome T manjaro 135 Welcome to Manjaro and thank you for joining our community We the Manjaro Developers hope that you will enjoy using Manjaro as much as we enjoy building it The links below will help you get started with your new operating system So enjoy the experience and don t hesitate to send us your feedback Documentation Project Get Involved EN Chat Room 0 Build Manjaro na i Mailing Lists Donations O Show this dialog on startup Close HIM Manjaro Welcome MM Mc ty A 02 59 Xfce edition man jaro man jaro 19 ls 1 2 4 E RANAH HH 1 1007 or failed retrieving file extra db from manjaro r ac z 673 8 KiB V s 00 10 CHEME IHIH gi aN TARO LINUY KDE edition Net edition USER GUIDE 17 Manjaro community editions In addition to the three main Manjaro editions there are a number of editions that hav
47. jaro Pamac installed with the Xfce edition and Octopi installed with the KDE edition Getting help There are a variety of ways of getting help and support about Man jaro as well as finding out more about the project You can just browse or register if you want to get involved Remember that Manjaro is run by its community Without a com munity there would be no Manjaro Whichever method you use we look forward to meeting you Manjaro Welcome manjaro Welcome to Manjaro and thank you for joining our community We the Manjaro Developers hope that you will enjoy using Manjaro as much as we enjoy building it The links below will help you get started with your new operating system So enjoy the experience and don t hesitate to send us your feedback Documentation Support Project Read Me aa Forums 0 Get Involved D Chat Room tt Build Manjaro RU Mailing Lists P4 Donations O Show this dialog on startup Close 1 The welcome screen has links to some excellent resources It s well worth taking the time to have a look at each of them 70 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Discusston forum http forum manjaro org Manjaro Linux Forum Index Mozilla Firefox Manjaro Linux mil Manjaro Linux Forum UJA manjaro org di Biv J 8 nik fi iii manjaro Manjaro Linux Forum News y Vote for your kernel to be kept and further maintained Vote now Announcements kohane in Re Manjaro0 8 9
48. l take effect within the Live environment along with setting these for the installed system 48 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Manjaro Linux x86 64 UEFI USB nonfree UEFI Shell x86 64 v1 UEFI Shell x86 64 v2 EFI Default Loader Installing Manjaro as the only operating system With Manjaro 0 8 12 Thus does an excellent job setting up your sys tem Once you have loaded the Live environment the installation steps are exactly the same as for a non UEFI installation The main difference is in the partition layout this is important if you wish to manually partition the drive to suit your own reguirements In automatic mode Thus creates a conservative partition layout that will work on all systems However the key extra partition for compatibility with UEFI systems is a fat32 formatted partition moun ted at boot efi make sure to include this if you partition manu ally 1 In UEFI mode the Manjaro boot selection screen looks guite different However the two main installation options are still there dev sda GParted GParted Edit View Device Partition Help G BI dev sda 300 00 GiB v FI II dev sda5 268 40 GiB Partition File System Label Size Used Unused Flags dev sdal A Mexta Manjaro 2 00 MiB m bios_grub dev sda2 IM fat32 UEFI SYSTEM 100 00 MiB 1 56 MiB 98 44 MiB boot esp dev sda3 E ext2 ManjaroBoot 256 00 MiB 14 09 MiB 241 91 MiB legacy boot dev sda4 H ext4 ManjaroRoot 29 30 GiB 3 29 GiB 26 01 GiB dev
49. larities with its parent there are still substantial differences between these operating systems and how they work Such is the case with Manjaro which is far from just being an easy to install or pre configured Arch operating system Here are some of the key differences between the Manjaro and Arch operating systems e Manjaro is developed independently from Arch and by a com pletely different team e Manjaro is designed to be accessible to newcomers while Arch is aimed at experienced users e Manjaro draws software from its own independent repositories These repositories also contain software packages not provided by Arch e Manjaro provides its own distribution specific tools such as the Manjaro Hardware Detection MHWD utility and the Manjaro Settings Manager MSM e Manjaro has numerous subtle differences in how it works when compared to Arch To reiterate although Manjaro is indeed an Arch derivative it is not Arch USER GUIDE 7 Contents Introduction 11 I Getting Manjaro 13 Downloading Manjaro 15 Checking a downloaded disc image for errors 19 Writing a disc image 23 II Installing Manjaro 29 Booting the Live environment 31 Using the graphical automatic installer 33 Using the graphical installer experienced users 41 Installing on a UEFI system 47 Advanced installation methods 57 10 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 III Welcome to Manjaro 61 The Manjaro desktop 63 Getting help 69 Matntatning your sys
50. m nightly BG Version 4 21 LATEST 37 1 0 9 15 1 1 latest 1 41 0 2224 3 1 LATEST 2 ty e 16 03 ii Version 4 21 39 0 2171 71 1 LATEST 37 1 0 9 15 1 1 latest 1 41 0 2224 3 1 LATEST 2 chromium 39 0 2171 71 1 The open source project behind Google Chrome an attempt at creating a http www chromium org Licences BSD ty 16 02 USER GUIDE 85 4 The software packages will be downloaded and installed You don t have to do anything else 5 The new software will show as installed within Pamac You can close Pamac now if you want 86 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 ell ile a Search Groups State Repositories State Name v Version browser vacuum 4 21 39 0 2171 71 1 LATEST 37 1 0 9 15 1 1 6 The new software is available in the application menu ready chromium chromium browser bin for you to use chromium bsu chromium chromevox latest 1 Jonathon o Cc 2 CG chromium dev 41 0 2224 3 1 chro _ chromium nightly LATEST 2 chromium 39 0 2171 71 1 T Appearance Customise the look of your desktop The open source project behind Google Chrome an attempt at creating a HexChat s http www chromium org Chat with other people online LibreOffice Licences BSD The office productivity suite compatible to the op LibreOffice Writer Create and edit text and graphics in letters repor 4 Network Connections Manage and
51. nity editions Two of the three official editions come complete with a pre installed desktop environment and a selection of popular software applications and either of these would be a great choice for anyone who wants to try out Manjaro on a Live CD without having to install it first If you have the time it s worth taking each for a test run to see which you like best Xfce The Xfce desktop environment is designed to be lightweight while retaining a familiar desktop interface If you re not sure which edition to choose this one is a good bet Xfce edition disc image files start with manjaro xfce KDE This version includes the K Desktop Environment It offers a highly integrated environment with plenty of functionality and options It is also highly customisable and offers a slightly differ ent feel than the other editions KDE edition disc image files start with manjaro kde Net This edition of Manjaro provides only a base installation stripped of all but the most basic pre installed software Starting from the command line this is suitable for more experienced users who may want to build their own Manjaro system from the ground up A disc image for a Net edition will always begin with manjaro net Each edition of Manjaro is available as 32 and 64 bit versions Disc images available for 32 bit systems will end in i686 iso and images for 64 bit systems will end in x86 64 iso A 64 bit operating system won t run on a 32 b
52. o ty k 15 28 USER GUIDE 73 7 If you prefer to use email there are several mailing lists that you can use to stay up to date with announcements and development as well as ask questions At the moment though most people use either the forums or IRC Maybe it will be you who gets people using the mailing lists 8 The wiki is essentially an on line user manual It has a huge range of information hints tips and instructions on getting the most out of your Manjaro system If you need to know how to do something chances are it s on the wiki Maintaining your system Changing settings While the Manjaro desktop comes with a set of defaults that should work well for most people you might want to change things like the desktop wallpaper and colour scheme or perhaps how your laptop touchpad behaves Xfce settings manager OR Settings amp Customise your desktop 1 The Xfce desktop is highly customisable The settings for Personal T Appearance File Manager Prefi d Notifications Panel Applications Wi M 7 Window Manager ON sid BA workspaces Desktop your user account can be ac cessed both via the applications Jonathon DOoZ e i A menu and the Xfce settings Tweaks Jardware manager Either way there s Accessibility Improve keyboard and m AI ah Mouse and E Display Keyboard uU Adobe Flash Player 5 Accessories pS Touchpad Preference
53. o pacman S manjaro printer 1 When you plug in your printer Manjaro should detect this and automatically install the correct drivers AD 20 16 G indent dl 2 and make the printer available CAD 20 16 G 78 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Jonathon print Manage Printing CUPS Web Interface Privilege granting Configure behavior of the privilege granting tool Preferred Applications Preferred Applications Web Browser Mail Reade LibreOffice Impress Create and edit presentations for slideshows me O Guayadeque Music Player Play and organize your music listen to radios po Dictionary A client program to query different dictionaries LibreOffice The office productivity suite compatible to the op ty ME 15 34 Print Settings localhost View Help HL 1250 series Connected to localhost U Print Settings localhost amp O wy y ui 20 18 G 3 To check on the available printers find and open Print Settings in the applications menu 4 If the printer was success fully installed it will show up here You re ready to print USER GUIDE 79 5 Otherwise you can add the printer manually Click Add to begin the process Print Settings localhost nter View Help There are no printers configured yet Add k Connected to localhost U Print Settings localhost 3 resi w PAD 19 58 G 6 You will need to enter your passwo
54. omevox latest 1 base now if you want base devel calligra cinnamon applets dlang Info Files Transaction Output News Usage festival SPECI vurpur UsMy couvat espeak Speech output using ESpeak installing chromium Optional dependencies for chromium kdebase kdialog needed for file dialogs in KDE kdeutils kwalletmanager for storing passwords in KWallet Command finished OK 3 1 packages 1 installed M 61 v ty A 4 15 57 File View Search Transaction Tools Help 2 4 k chromium E 11 The new software is avail Name V Version Groups Ee able in the application menu chromium bsu 0 9151 1 lt Yaourt gt 8 chromium chromevox latest 1 base ready for you to use base devel x calligra Jonathon De amp 2 C cinnamon applets dlan chr a g Jtput News Usage ao ESpeak Catfish File Search Search the file system em file dialogs in KDE HexChat storing passwords in KWallet Chat with other people online a Mouse and Touchpad Configure pointer device behaviour and appearance Pidgin Internet Messenger m 61 v Chat over IM Supports AIM Google Talk Jabber 3 Network Connections Manage and change your network connection set Notifications Customise how notifications appear on your screen Steam steam runtime Y Compatibility launcher using the Steam runtime Menu Octopi ty v 15 58 USER GUIDE 89 Using Pacman Pacman i
55. our disc image file is located in a directory named download you would first change to that directory jonathon box cd download Then you can generate an SHA 1 hash code for the disc image using jonathon box download shaisum manjaro xfce 0 8 12 x86_64 iso 22 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 This command generates a hash code for the 64 bit Manjaro Xfce 0 8 12 disc image which can then be manually compared to the code contained in the checksum file Checking in Microsoft Windows Unlike Linux Microsoft Windows does not have any suitable built in tools so you will need to download and install a checksum utility application A web search will turn up several examples of free soft ware or you can look on the Download com website Another free checksum utility which has positive reviews is Raymond s MD5 amp SHA Checksum Utility This is the program we will use in the following example manjaro openbox 0 8 8 0 909 shal sum Notepad2 File Edit View Settings Asad 4 BA A4 H RS OK 1 5ca884d16e675f075d58d925fd494a1fd0ff867e manjaro openbox 0 8 8 2 72aeble2fcf8890689c251caac8la5ec52c7a286 manjaro openbox 0 8 8 3 909 1686 iso 909 x86 64 iso 0 0 E MDS amp SHA Checksum Utility 2 0 Help Generate Hash la e File R manjaro openbox 0 8 8 0 909 x86_64 iso MD5 SHA 1 Y 72AEB1E2FCF8890689C25 1CAAC81A5EC52C7A286 Copy SHA 1 SHA 256 CopyAl Verify Hash with Generated Hash MD5 SHA 1 or SHA
56. pace for all system programs 20GB is gen erally sufficient but if you have a smaller disc you can reduce this We have selected FXT4 as the file system and made sure to set the mountpoint to root Partition 2 Home Manjaro Installer Advanced installation mode Create partition Size 296960 MB Type Primary Device Type w dev sda dev sdal ext4 Extended Location Beginning of this space End of this space Use as ext4 v Ele E v Root Mount point home v Cancel Use this device for boot load ATA VBOX HARDDISK 322 GB dev sda v Close x lt Back Install now Swap partition Manjaro Installer Advanced installation mode Create partition Size 4678 iz MB Type Primary Device Type w dev sda dev sdal ext4 O Extended dev sda2 ext4 Location Beginning of this space O End of this space Use as swap Y en Y Root Cancel v Use this device for boot loader installation ATA VBOX HARDDISK 322 GB dev sda v Close x lt Back Install now USER GUIDE 45 7 We ve added a second par tition to hold our user docu ments It s set to be 295GB in size with the EXT4 file system and the mountpoint is set to home Home 8 Finally we ve added a swap partition This will act as extra very very slow RAM if we run out It s not really suitable as anything other than a last resor
57. rd to allow the printer Home Select Device detection process Once you ve ki Devices Enter device URI Ha typed in your password click Network Printer OK Authentication JE printer queue CI Username jonathon Dp Password eecseccccccseeee O Cancel E Mi 13 19 58 G 80 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 New Printer Home Select Device ki Devices Description Brother HL 1250 A printer connected to a USB port k Generic CUPS PDF Enter URI gt Network Printer O Cancel Forward 3 FADE 20 19 G New Printer Home Describe Printer E Printer Name Short name for this printer such as laserjet Brother HL 1250 series Description optional Human readable description such as HP LaserJet with Duplexer Brother HL 1250 series Location optional Human readable location such as Lab 1 Study O Cancel Apply k FADE 20 19 G 7 All detected printers will show in the devices list Se lect your printer then click Forward If your printer does not show up it s possible that your printer isn t compatible with Manjaro Due to the vast num ber of printers out there you may need to install drivers manually please visit the forum or IRC channel for help 8 As Manjaro installs your printer you can change some settings like its name and loc ation These provide an easy way of identifying the printer Home 1 Print Settings localhost Server Printer View Help
58. s for Adobe Fl a lot of tweaking you can do Removable Drives Development Power Manager P 9 and Media Don t worry the changes will T Appearance Customise the look of yo i ustomise the look of yo Education System only affect your user account Bluetooth Manager PA Games Blueman Bluetooth Mana sama f S A Internet Help X Close not any others you might have added Display Configure screen setting J Multimedia O File Manager C Office Configure the Thunar file 7 Firewall Configuration es An easy way to configure System Menu Settings ty HE 15 33 76 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Manjaro Settings Manager Manjaro Settings Manager Manjaro Settings System Es Language Language Packa Kernel Time and Date Notifications Hardware EH sd Keyboard Settings Hardware Detec User Accounts ty Ik 15 32 2 The Manjaro Settings Man ager provides a set of tools for changing lower level settings such as those you set dur ing installation System wide languages keyboard layouts users and hardware drivers are all taken care of from here It is available under Settings in the applications menu USER GUIDE 77 Adding a printer Manjaro comes with excellent printing support Most printers can be installed just by plugging them in If you installed a minimal or Net edition you may have to install printing support first sud
59. s the Arch Linux package manager This underpins Pamac and Octopi but doesn t have a graphical interface Instead it is used by typing commands on the terminal The commands allow you to install upgrade configure and remove software Synchronising with the Manjaro repositories As new packages are added to the repositories you will need to reg ularly synchronise the package lists This is normally taken care of automatically on a regular basis by the software managers but to perform this manually type the following into the terminal sudo pacman Sy This will only download the package lists if there has been a change Occasionally you may want to force the package lists to be down loaded To do this type sudo pacman Syy Updating software Pacman will allow you to perform an update of software already installed sudo pacman Su It s a good idea to check whether the package lists are up to date at the same time sudo pacman Syu You can also force a package list synchronisation before performing an update sudo pacman Syyu Searching for software 1 sudo pacman Syyu Finding a package by name is really straightforward For example to search for a text editor called Leafpad sudo pacman Ss leafpad Installing software Installing a package is equally straightforward For example to in stall Leafpad Many software applications depend on other software packages Thankfully sudo pacman S leafpad p
60. sc or to manually edit any config uration files However the overall flexibility of the process is not as great as the advanced installation process Where possible make sure you are connected to the internet be fore booting from your installation media into the Live environment If you have a hard wired connection via an Ethernet cable then Man jaro will automatically connect to the internet without you having to do anything Otherwise once you have booted into Manjaro s desktop you will need to select and then connect to your wireless network For a constantly updated version check out the wiki User guide http wiki manjaro org index php title Graphical_ Installation Guide for Beginners 0 8 12 34 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Choose your language Welcome to Manjaro Please choose your language Languages Asturianu Bahasa Indonesia Bosanski Catala Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch Eesti Espafiol Esperanto Choose your location Select your location Manjaro Installer a Bahasa Shgipbokmalkurdi PyccKutt caailecBosanskiLatviski YCCKMM Gaeilge osanski skTi vier TagalogltalianoESpa ol py MNYTSK I nga Nederlands LietuviskaiP OrtugueS Cymraeg MaKeHOHCEH Beapyckan Esperanto Deutsch ys kdoSa 28 yupa n bka Sloven ina _ Catala Simegillii db BI APCKHSuomi _francalsEnglish Slovencina EMAnvuc Turko MICRAS rvatskix Asturianu Wolo BrasilMagyar Danekcestina Svenska gt y Rom n polski Notice T
61. sda5 H lt xta ManjaroHome 268 40 GiB 4 40 GiB 264 01 GiB dev sda6 E linux swap ManjaroSwap 1 95 GiB 0 00 B 1 95 GiB O operations pending Manjaro Installer Advanced installation mode Device Type Mount point Label Format Size Used Flags SSD w dev sda 322G dev sdal fat32 boot efi EFI 99M dev sda2 ext4 Manjaro v 40G dev sda3 ext4 home Home v 271G dev sda4 swap swap 9G Mount checklist w Root v EFI boot efi ENEE Iv Use this device for boot loader installation Close x USER GUIDE 49 1 The partition layout created by Thus in automatic mode with separate Home 2 A manual partition layout Note the lack of a GRUB BIOS partition this is not necessary with a GPT partition layout under EFT 50 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Installing alongside Microsoft Windows 8 or later It is possible that you want install Manjaro but keep an existing Win dows 8 installation on your computer This is possible but a little more complicated to set up It s not for the faint of heart and you should make sure you have a backup of any important documents or information before proceeding The following instructions assume you are using a machine with UEFI enabled Secure Boot disabled and are using drives with a GUID Partition Table GPT Download the installation media First make sure you have downloaded a 64 bit version of Manjaro It doesn t matter which edition you choo
62. se but the filename must end with x86_64 iso Next create the Live media by burning the disc image to a DVD or writing to a USB flash drive The process is very similar to a non UEFI installation but for Windows users using USB media Rufus 10 http rufus akeo ie is highly recommended Rufus should use the following settings Device choose your USB Attention choose correctly the device selected here will be formatted Partition scheme and target system type GPT partition scheme for UEFI computer Partition scheme GPT partition scheme for UEFI computer File system FAT32 Default File system FAT32 Default 8192 bytes Default Cluster size 8192 bytes Default rn Volume label MJRO_0812 Be ae ae Y Quick format Format Options Quick format Create a bootable disk using ISO V Create a bootable disk using ISO Image v 23 Y Create extended label and icon files Image Click on the DVD icon to select your downloaded disc image Create extended label and icon files About Log Close No new version of Rufus was found Click Start and you are done though it takes between around two and five minutes to complete 1 Rufus with recommended Boot the Live environment settings Before booting check your BIOS settings UEFI must be on and Se cure Boot off Manjaro currently doesn t support Secure Boot Boot with your Live media and select which set of drivers you would like to use
63. st Use as fat32 v free space none or you won t be able to boot Root vonje akad EFI boot efi Mount point boot efi Aaa Remove z Format iv Use this device for boot loader installatic Cancel Manjaro Installer Advanced installation mode Device v dev sda dev sdal dev sda2 dev sda3 dev sda4 dev sda5 dev sda6 Type Mount point Label ntfs RECOVERY fat32 boot efi EFI ntfs ext4 Manjaro swap swap ESE Use this device for boot loader installation Format Size Used Flags SSD 322G 314M 104M 134M Ob 214G Ob 102G 4G Mount checklist w Root y EFI boot efi PAPER E Update the GRUB bootloader or Where did Windows go Sometimes the bootloader GRUB2 doesn t detect an existing Mi crosoft Windows installation when installing This means that only Manjaro Linux will appear in the list of options when you boot the machine This is easy to solve Run the command sudo update grub in a terminal after booting into Manjaro and it will detect Windows and add an entry to the boot menu USER GUIDE 55 9 Create the rest of partitions as normal You need at least a root partition mountpoint Click Install now confirm the changes and proceed with the rest of the installation process Advanced installation methods The text based installer The Manjaro Live environment provides t
64. stalled on your Windows PC In addition if an error message is displayed upon starting the process on Windows Vista and later you might need to open Image Writer by first right clicking on the icon and then selecting the Run as Administrator option Make sure that Windows Explorer is closed before attempting to write the disc image otherwise it may block ing the website though the process is very straightforward acess to he USB flash drive If this happens the following error message will be displayed system compon entModel Win32Exception Access is denied For more detailed information about the software it s worth read USER GUIDE 27 1 Click the select button folder icon 2 Navigate to and select the Manjaro disc image 3 Select your USB flash drive from the Device menu 4 Click the Write button 5 Once it has finished reboot your system making sure to select the USB flash drive as the boot device Re partitioning your USB stick as a RAW data type will result in all data zeno present being destroyed and will Writer authors recommend that you use a partitioning tool to re render it unusable for other purposes format the USB flash drive as a RAW partition type then try again until reformatted back to its original partition type If for some reason the writing process is unsuccessful the Image Unfortunately this process is outside the scope of this guide Part Il Installing Manjaro Boot
65. start fresh by clicking New partition table Mount checklist Root ESE AE Use this device for boot loader installation ATA VBOX HARDDISK 322 GB dev sda x Close X Back USER GUIDE 43 Create a partition table Manjaro Installer 3 The partition table type you Advanced installation mode chose will normally depend on your system Non EFI systems Device Type Mount point Label Format Size Used Flags ED New partition table are normally best with MBR Create Partition T ume whereas EFI systems should dev sdal ext4 P dev sda2 swap swap a Gan use GPT Once you re happy click OK to create the partition GUID Partition Table GPT table Mount checklist Root El EA v Use this device for boot loader installation ATA VBOX HARDDISK 322 GB dev sda v Menu thus py 2 Vu 14 13 GPT on a non EFI system Manjaro Installer 4 You will get a warning if you Advanced installation mode ercate a CPT partition table on a non EFl system You can Device still proceed if you want but v dev sda 2 Ea e Varni be aware of the extra partition GRUB requires a BIOS Boot Partition 2 MiB no filesystem EFO2 type code FT in gdisk or bios grub flag in GNU Parted in BIOS systems to embed its Dont delete it core img file due to lack of post MBR embed gap in GPT disks free sp Thus will create this special partition
66. t but can sometimes make the difference between losing work and guitting cleanly This is set to take the remainder of the free space about 4GB 46 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Finalising the partitions Manjaro Installer 9 The partition layout is ready Advanced installation mode but before continuing it s worth checking over You can change Device Type Mount point Label Format Size Used Flags and adapt the layout freely at ee nin undo this point as nothing has been dev sdal ext4 Manjaro 20G dev sda2 ext4 Home v 296G written to disc Kerjaan pip ae Once you are happy click In stall now to proceed Mount checklist w Root ESE EEA Use this device for boot loader installation ATA VBOX HARDDISK 322 GB dev sda v Verify partitioning actions Manjaro Installer 10 As a final check the in Advanced installation mode 1 staller will ask you to verify These disks will have partition actic that you want to write the parti ed kia tion layout to disc If you want v dev sda Partition New Relabel Format Mount dev sdal ext4 dev sda2 ext4 dsni m click Cancel Otherwise to con to go back and make a change dev sda3 swap ish Yes Yes tinue to install Manjaro click Idev sda3 No OK The rest of the process is Mount checklist the same as for the Automatic concet NEG V Root installer so we re done here EA Use this device for boot loader
67. tall it to your system and or install Man jaro on your system It s important to note Manjaro will not have full functionality when run in Live CD mode For example you will not be able to save any changes to the system install updates or add new applications Due to the amount of software included on the full edition disc images you may need to use a DVD instead of a CD Check the fol lowing table as a guide if you re not sure Edition Filename Size Media KDE manjaro kde o 8 12 1686 is0 15GB DVD manjaro kde o 8 12 x86 64 iso 1 6GB Xfce manjaro xfce 0 8 12 1686 iso 1 3GB DVD manjaro xfce 0 8 12 x86 64 iso 1 4GB Net manjaro net 0 8 12 1686 iso 540MB CD manjaro net 0 8 12 x86 64 iso 670MB Many people routinely use a DVD rather than a CD even for the smallest disc image files Not only is a DVD faster to burn but they allow higher data access rates so the Live CD loads faster and the installation completes sooner However with the increasing capacity and decreasing cost of USB flash media this presents an even more attractive method than the traditional burning process it is far faster and more flexible than using optical media Both CD DVD burning and USB flash media installation methods are covered in this guide There is an exception to this rule If you intend on installing Manjaro in a virtual machine environment using Oracle s VirtualBox then there will be no need to burn the image as VirtualBox will be able to read from th
68. tem 75 Index 95 Introduction About Manjaro Manjaro is a user friendly GNU Linux distribution based on the in dependently developed Arch Linux Within the Linux community Arch itself is renowned for being an exceptionally fast powerful and lightweight distribution that provides access to the very latest cutting edge software However Arch is also traditionally aimed at more experienced or technically minded users As such it is gener ally considered to be beyond the reach of many especially those who lack the technical expertise or persistence reguired to use it Developed in Austria France and Germany Manjaro aims to provide all of the benefits of Arch Linux combined with a focus on user friendliness and accessibility Available in both 32 and 64 bit versions Manjaro is suitable for newcomers as well as experienced Linux users For newcomers a user friendly installer is provided and the system itself is designed to work fully straight out of the box with features including e Pre installed desktop environments e Pre installed graphical applications to easily install software and update your system e Pre installed codecs to play multimedia files e Pre installed access to the latest games Features Manjaro shares many of the same features as Arch including e Speed power and efficiency e Access to the very latest cutting and bleeding edge software e A rolling release development model that provides th
69. tically and this gives you some useful links to documentation ways to get help and sup port from the Manjaro community and some ways you can get in volved with the project Remember that Manjaro is free and open source software it relies on contributions from its user and developer community 1 The Manjaro Xfce Desktop with Welcome Screen Manjaro Welcome manjaro Welcome to Manjaro and thank you for joining our community We the Manjaro Developers hope that you will enjoy using Manjaro as much as we enjoy building it The links below will help you get started with your new operating system So enjoy the experience and don t hesitate to send us your feedback Documentation Support Project B Read Me E Forums 0 Get Involved Release Info se Chat Room ro Build Manjaro Wiki wd Mailing Lists DE Donations Home O Show this dialog on startup Close If you don t want the welcome screen to load each time you log in just untick the box Show this dialog on startup Don t worry you can always find it again in the applications menu The applications menu is the easiest way of starting the software programs that are installed on your Manjaro system The icon for this is in the corner of the screen Go ahead and click on it now You can also press the Windows or Super key on your keyboard Handy 64 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 2 Software applications that are installed will be displayed in the applic
70. to accomplish with a graphical in terface In this example I have listed 1s the files in my home directory Learning how to use the terminal is not needed for running Manjaro It s highly recommended how ever check out sites like http linuxcommand org 6 File Manager is a graphical interface for managing your documents and directories Most file managers work in a similar way if you ve used another you can probably use this one Hint you can find this user guide in the Manjaro directory 66 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Web Browser Manjaro Linux Mozilla Firefox nl Manjaro Linux manjaro org ve Bs i 8 A 7 Web Browser allows you manjaro TE ARO COMMUNITY REPORT ABOUT to visit and view web pages so you can read news stories check the weather forecast and Professional and user friendly Linux at its best Evolving and giving the linux world a new face and operating experience all the rest The software ap plication that is installed will depend on the Edition of Man grame jaro you installed but they all manjaro work in a similar way If you We the Manjaro Developers you will enjoy using Manjaro as njoy bullding it The z nev r hope that y a much as we enjay h l f poe Se er er with your new operating system So enjoy the experience and don t ave a particu ar pre erence Documentation Support Project you Can easily add or remove reine GB forums e Get Involved
71. wo installation tools along with the graphical installer a text based CLI installer is available This is suitable for advanced users who need extra control over the installation process for example if they want to set up RAID or alter system configuration options It s also useful for very old machines and is the only installation method available for the Net edition The text based installer is only recommended for advanced users 1 The installation process steps are very similar to the graphical installer However much more control is available Set date and time 58 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Set date and time o Terminal File Edit View Terminal Tabs Help 2 The first menu item allows you to manually set your timezone and check the date and time set for your system Set the machine time to UTC universal time recommended or local time if you have a dual boot with a system requiring it i localtime lt Cancel gt Hard disk s preparation a Terminal File Edit View Terminal Tabs Help 3 The second menu item al lows full control over the parti tion layout Hard disk s preparation 1MAssisted preparation erases the whole disk 2 Partition by hand and choose the partitions to use 3 Main menu lt Cancel gt USER GUIDE 59 Install system a Terminal File Edit View Terminal Tabs Help 4 The third menu item starts the installation process You will get no confirmation before th
72. write to If not click the button to select it manually 6 Click the properties button to open the properties window and then click the button beneath the title Burning Speed We strongly recommend you select the slowest speed available Once selected click the Close button 7 Click the Burn button to start the burning process If necessary follow any on screen instructions provided Burning to a CD DVD tn Microsoft Windows Newer versions of Microsoft Windows Windows 7 and later include a disc image burner If you do not have a newer version of Microsoft Windows you will need to download one of the many free disc burn ing software utilities Burning using Windows Disc Image Burner Selecting the disc image file and clicking on Burn disc image or simply double clicking on the file itself will start the Windows Disc Xfce environments tend to include XFBurn KDE environments tend to include K3b GNOME environments tend to include Brasero It s a good idea to use rewriteable disc e g CD RW or DVD RW Although slightly more expensive individually than a write once disc you can reuse the disc again and again for example when the next version of Manjaro is released We strongly recommend you select the slowest speed available when burning to disc in order minimise the possibility of corruption during the burning process It s also a good idea to avoid using any applications which make intensive use of system resourc
73. you lose power Most of the time it s relatively easy to get your system back to a working state The most common error you will be something like Synchronising package databases error failed to update core unable to lock database error failed to update extra unable to lock database error failed to update community unable to lock database error failed to update multilib unable to lock database error failed to synchronise any databases error failed to init transaction unable to lock database error could not lock database File exists if you re sure a package manager is not already running you can remove var lib pacman db lck This means pacman thinks it is already running If it is and you try to force an installation or removal of software the package database can be left in an inconsistent state This would be bad So the first thing to check is whether an installer is running One of the easiest ways to check is to run a terminal command ps x grep pacman This might look complicated but it s just two small commands joined piped together First ps x produces a list of running processes for all users Second grep pacman USER GUIDE 93 searches for the text pacman The pipe takes the output from the first and feeds it to the second To check whether another pro gram is running you can just change the text pacman to something else ps x grep pamac ps x grep octopi Once you
74. you reach the sixth step of the installation process select Manage your partitions and where to install Man jaro advanced and then click Forward to proceed 6 On the partitioning screen you can see the 100GB of free space we just created Note the 100MB fat32 partition this is the EFI boot partition needed by Windows At this point you have two choices 54 MANJARO LINUX 0 8 12 Manjaro Installer 7 Firstly you can create an Advanced installation mode other new EFI partition just Create partition for Manjaro This means Pa everything is kept separate v dev sda Type Primary Idev sdal ntfs to Windows Location Beginning of this space dev sda2 fat32 Z RRNA A partition of 100MB should dev sda3 ei bee ntfs Use as fat32 v PENA NE NN ao be enough but the mountpoint Label optional Nan must be boot efi and the Mount point boot ef rape A partition type fat32 Cancel Use this device for boot loader installation AAA TA 8 Otherwise you can reuse the Advanced installation mode EFI partition created by Win dows This is normally quite Device Type Mount point Label Format Size Used Flags SSD safe to do v dev sda 322G dev sdal ntfs RECOVERY 314M 2M Select the mountpoint Idevsda2 fat32 EA D AMM boot efi but make sure you dev sda3 dev sda4 ntfs Edit partiti iti e partition do not format the partition Mount checkli

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