Arch Linux ARM - the lightweight distro on a lightweight platform

Hello again!

2021-04-04T18:32:50+00:00

Greeting everyone, and Happy Easter!

It's u/RageAgainstTheSurge (or just Rage for short). It is with great humility and honor to report that I have become r/ArchLinuxARM's newest moderator. I want to thank u/OddCoincidence for giving me the privilege to serve this subreddit.

Because my specialty is setting up ArchLinuxARM (a.k.a. ALARM) for Raspberry Pi devices, I will need some help from the community to help others with other devices that support ArchLinuxARM like the ODroid, Pine64, Rock64, Beagleboard, Beaglebone, and other devices listed on the ALARM website.

One of the reasons I like ALARM is that much of the documentation on the ArchLinux Wiki (ALW or ArchWiki) and the Arch User Repository (AUR) is usable with ALARM.

If you are using one of Manjaro Linux's ARM distributions, this subreddit may be an asset as well since Manjaro is a fork of Arch Linux. However, I do recommend that any Manjaro or Manjaro ARM related questions be posted in r/ManjaroLinux rather than in this subreddit.

While I am still dedicated to working on r/PerfectALARM, I'd though I'd take the time this week to give this subreddit a facelift.

This community has such great potential, and I look forward to working with you all.

Thank you for reading this post and for the privilege of your time.

Now let's have some fun!

Rage

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Banana pi m2 Zero image wanted

2023-01-23T12:13:06+00:00

Hello, is there a functional image for the banana pi m2 Zero with functional Ethernet port?

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ARM os on Android based device?

2023-01-18T12:43:50+00:00

Device: I.e. MTK based smartphone like Ulefone S7 (and for real, Android based devices in general)

My question is.. Is there a chance to install some, let's say, any, OS as base software? Standalone?

Most of tutorials, solutions, manuals were based on fact that they made it work with Androind software, some terminals and all, but none of them seems to get rid of Android.. I wanna build sort of laptop or other handheld device to work on go using old boards from phones I have in cabinet, load some Linux or mess around with Batocera, or some experimental OS's.. But never found good tut about it.

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Install Arch Linux Arm to BananaPi M2 Zero

2023-01-16T03:09:09+00:00

I tried posting this in r/bananapi but that community does not let just anyone create posts, so I'm posting here instead.

I've uploaded my scripts on Github that automates the process to install Arch Linux Arm on microSD card for the BananaPi M2 Zero board. It's a stripped down version to what I actually used.

I try my best to briefly explain the process in the README.

It's available at https://github.com/KishimotoKuroCrow/ArchLinux_BPiM2Z_arm7

In the original version, I wrote it such that they'd generate additional scripts in the user's home directory, and once logged in, I'd run those scripts to further customize settings (using the assigned dynamic IP address into a static IP, compile AUR projects like PiHole, etc).

I hope this will help others even if there are already some tutorials out there.

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Brave for ARM64 (Looking for testers)

2023-01-15T13:42:06+00:00

Hi there!
Latest stable release of Brave included aarch64 packages for the firs time.

I just updated the brave-bin package with what seems to be a pretty simple and easy modification to add support, but since I don't have any ARM64 machine with Arch to test I would appreciate if someone could confirm if it's working nicely.

Thanks a lot :D

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Installing OpenSSL 3 breaks pacman

2022-12-30T12:48:57+00:00

Hello,

I'm trying to install Arch Linux inside of Parallels on a M1 Mac and a Raspberry Pi 4.

I encounter the same problem on both devices: when I try to install sudo, pacman pulls its dependency openssl-3.0.7-4 which breaks pacman, every command afterwards would result in pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: connot open shared object file: No such file or directory. What should I do to fix this?

Thanks!

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Raspberry Pi 3 missing libcrypto.so.3 on clean install

2022-12-30T04:09:39+00:00

I am attempting to get Arch arm installed on a rpi3b+ for a pi-hole.

Following the installation instructions, I rebooted and tried running #pacman -Syu to update and am getting the following error

Welcome to Arch Linux ARM Website: https://archlinuxarm.org Forum: https://archlinuxarm.org/forum IRC: #archlinuxarm on irc. libera.chat Last login: Thu Dec 29 15:28:05 2022 from [alarm@archpi-hole ~]$ pacman -Syu pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.3: cannot ope n shared object file: No such file or directory [alarm@archpi-hole ~]$

Did I miss something between this installation page and rebooting into Arch the first time? Pacman static does not work either.

Note: I’ve only ever used endeavourOS and did not use the Aarch64 build at the bottom. I am using an official 2,5A power supply.

Thanks for any help

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Where can I get PKGBUILD for wlroots?

2022-12-19T16:15:17+00:00

I want to install wlroots v0.16.0 to build river in Asahi Linux.

My plan was to find wlroots v0.15.1's PKGBUILD file, change pkgver to v0.16.0, and run makepkg -si. But with all PKGBUILD file I got from yay -G wlroots didn't work (even before editing the pkgver value.) I just get the following error

==> ERROR: wlroots is not available for the 'aarch64' architecture

I'm confused because I could install wlroots without this error by yay -S wlroots. Where can I get the real PKGBUILD file for ARM arch yay used for yay -S?

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What to expect from Arch on RPi4B

2022-12-08T15:05:48+00:00

Im thinking about trying Arch linux on RPi4B to be used as Docker host for home automation. Im wondering how does Arch work on RPi? Especially in comparison with x86_64 version. Are there any quirks, problems that are known? How's with the number of packages available for arm? Will I see some other drawbacks with comparison to x86_64? Also how it compares in your opinion with RaspberryOS? In summary - what should I know, and what should I expect?

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application crash on raspberry pi2

2022-12-02T10:26:34+00:00

easy question today: can someone advise where to report an application crash? System is raspberry pi 2 running arch. The application in question is gerbera.

I found the instructions for installing arch on the pi. The instructions were very clear and worked great! But that package is segfaulty and I don't know where to go.

Thanks in advance!

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Ethernet interface renamed

2022-11-20T03:44:16+00:00

What would have caused the interface name to change from eth0 to end0?

I did a routine pacman -Syu without noticing anything unusual. After rebooting I had no network connection.

I have solved the problem by editing and renaming the configuration file

/etc/systemd/network/end0.network

Would still like to know why the interface named changed.

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QEMU Install Missing libbpf.so=0-64

2022-11-05T15:00:16+00:00

I am trying to install QEMU (qemu-base) in Arch Linux Arm and was missing several dependencies. However I have managed to fix all of these bar two, those being:

:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libbpf.so=0-64' required by qemu-system-x86

:: unable to satisfy dependency 'qemu-system-x86' required by qemu-base

The previous missing dependencies were seabios and edk2-ovmf which I was able to solve with some help from an old thread on this subreddit.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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UEFI Install ISO ?

2022-11-03T11:54:23+00:00

Anyone know where to find an installation iso with UEFI ?

I did find one, but it was over a year old. Could not use it

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Lsblk label for USB to sata drives on rpi

2022-11-02T05:48:23+00:00

Hi love you all for what you're doing, quick question if I got the latest RPI4 image of Arch Linux ARM and wanted to alter the fstab to have a hdd (connected through sata to usb) as /home/ would it be /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, or something else entirely? My current layout follows the latest image, /boot as /dev/mmcblkp1(might have the label wrong) and / as /dev/mmcblkp2.

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Windows Dev Kit 2023

2022-10-29T20:16:51+00:00

Does Arch Arm have a build that is compatible with the Windows Dev Kit 2023 running Snapdragon Gen 3? I am looking to get one as a fun box for multi OS booting. EDIT: Link to this new offering https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2022/10/24/available-today-windows-dev-kit-2023-aka-project-volterra/

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Pi4B-8GB - New setup won't boot

2022-10-21T03:28:57+00:00

Hi all,

Pulling my hair out here.

Trying to setup Arch on my Pi4B-8GB.

I did firmware updates first using the Raspberry Pi OS. No problems there. Then proceeded to follow the docs on the ArchLinuxARM website for the 64bit install. Didn't anticipate any issues.

Alas, the device will not boot.

Can anyone with a successful setup please share what your fstab looks like?

I've not set up Arch on ARM before. But on checking the fstab, there is only a single mount point setup for the boot partition. Is this correct?

Using the same SD card as used previously with Raspberry Pi OS for the firmware updates. Confident the SD card is OK. Using the same power support as before too.

If I plug in a monitor, it seems to be in a boot loop. I need to note exactly what it says but something along the lines of:

Starting USB... searching xhci... searching xhci...

Then it quickly shows a message saying "BUG" I think before it powers off and starts over.

Thought this would going to be really simple. Haha.

Is there anything stupid I could be doing wrong or missing?

Thanks,

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Black screen after boot on RPI 4B

2022-10-04T20:25:36+00:00

Hi. I want to use a small 1024x600 screen with my raspberry pi 4B. It wasn’t working at all but after i added hdmi_cvt=1024 600 59.94 in config.txt i can see a boot process very well. But after it loads the kernel and a bit of systemd the screen turn black and I cant see the tty. It looks like system loads something like a framebuffer(idk) because when I boot with my monitor connected, the boot process is in 1024x600 but then changes back to 1920x1080 and I think that breaks my small screen. Can I just keep the boot display settings or disable that thing that changes resolution back? I tried using. vga=0,nomodeset. It is possible to use Xorg but I don’t want to, i want just a tty. Using archlinux arm.

EDIT: nvm, I updated the system and for some reason it works now

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shutdown -h now just reboots with Pi 400

2022-09-27T12:51:23+00:00

Hi, beginner to ArchLinuxArm here. I just got ArchLinuxArm running yesterday.

When I run sudo shutdown -h now or sudo poweroffthe Pi 400 just reboots instead of powering down; sudo poweroff powers down the machine on Debian, but not on ArchLinuxArm.

Is there something I’m missing, please?

cat /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/model;echo results say:

Raspberry Pi 400 Rev 1.0

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I cant get aarch64 to work on my raspberry pi 4

2022-09-21T19:12:37+00:00

Ive been trying to install arch linux arm onto my rpi4 for the past week but have been unable to get it to work. I have followed the install guide perfectly and have managed to the the 32bit image to work perfectly however i am unsure as to why i am unable to get the 64bit image to boot

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Armv8 Rpi4

2022-09-21T13:34:10+00:00

Hi !

Is the Rpi 4 Installation guide up to date now that there is an official 64bit raspberry pi OS ?

If I understand correctly, it's either the official 32bit kernel or the mainline aarch 64 that are available in the installation guide?

Is there no reason to run arch with the 64 bit raspberry pi kernel?

Thanks for your help in clearing this up !

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kernel version mismatch

2022-09-18T22:53:28+00:00

dmesg complains that “version magic ‘5.19.8-1-aarch64-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload aarch64’ should be ‘5.19.5-1-aarch64-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload aarch64’”

uname -r returns “5.19.5-1-aarch64-ARCH”

pacman -Q linux, however, says i have “linux-aarch64 5.19.8-1” installed

why is this happening?

list of things i’ve tried: - disabling autodetect in mkinitcpio and rerunning it - replacing initramfs.img with initramfs-fallback.img - renaming modules folder to the same version as kernel - unmounting /boot and deleting everything in it

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No gtkmm3 for 'aarch64'?

2022-09-15T05:00:16+00:00

I'm trying to install the lv2-plugins group, but I'm getting the error that gtkmm3-3.24.6-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz can't be found. I tried building from source, but got this error:

==> ERROR: gtkmm3 is not available for the 'aarch64' architecture.

Is there a package available for aarch64?

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iso-codes-4.11.0-1 Missing?

2022-09-14T23:27:07+00:00

I just tried to install the 'lv2-plugin' group and got the error:

iso-codes-4.11.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz failed to download

I tried to install the package individually, but got the same error. I'm assuming this only affects the ARM code base. How should the issue be reported?

I'm about to try a source code download and build. Any other suggestions how to resolve?

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Installing cec-utils on Arch Linux Arm.

2022-09-08T00:07:43+00:00

Hi,

I'm totally new to Arch Linux Arm and I'm trying to install cec-utils.

How do I install it on Arch?

Also I may need to add the proper repository. Or maybe download Arch's version of a .deb file to install manually. Where do I find it?

On Debian I used to issue : apt install cec-utils

Or use package manager on a deb file.

But I have no idea what to do on Arch.

BTW: The Hardware is a raspberry Zero W.

Please help! Thanks!

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Argon40 Argon ONE V2 case fan controls

2022-09-03T16:30:44+00:00

Hi all, I picked up an RPi4 around last year or so, and have been running Raspbian (Raspberry Pi OS) on it for a while. My question is, are there any reliable (and tested) alternatives to the official script? I've tried [argonone-c](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/argonone-c-git) from the AUR, and it didn't work to control the fan for some reason.

Does anybody have the same case, and if so, how did you get it working?

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Can I install Arch on Android?

2022-08-30T03:03:46+00:00

I am not aiming for TermuxArch, neither Linux Deploy, nor the apps that do it.

I want to do it run along-side Android, using XSDL for the X11 interface.

Is this impossible or so very difficulty?

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