Install ERPNext on ArchLinux

Install pre-requisites

# pacman -Syu
# pacman -S mariadb redis python2-pip wkhtmltopdf git npm cronie nginx openssl
# npm install -g yarn

Setup MariaDB

# mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql
# systemctl start mariadb
# mysql_secure_installation

For more information - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MySQL#Installation

Add the following in mysql configuration located in /etc/mysql/my.conf

# nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

  [mysqld]
  innodb-file-format=barracuda
  innodb-file-per-table=1
  innodb-large-prefix=1
  character-set-client-handshake = FALSE
  character-set-server = utf8mb4
  collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci

  [mysql]
  default-character-set = utf8mb4

Ctrl + X and then Y to save the file.

Start services

# systemctl start mariadb redis

Note if you don't have cron service enabled you would have to enable it by

# systemctl enable cronie

Install ERPNext

$ git clone https://github.com/frappe/bench bench-repo
$ pip2 install --user -e bench-repo # no root required installing as user.
$ echo "export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc # add ~/.local/bin to path if not already there.
$ source ~/.bashrc
$ bench init frappe-bench && cd frappe-bench
$ bench get-app erpnext https://github.com/frappe/erpnext
$ bench new-site site1.local
$ bench --site site1.local install-app erpnext
$ bench use site1.local
$ bench start

Congrats, now open http://localhost:8000