Archibald

Archibald is a utility meant to be used on a fresh system, that can help the user automate post-install procedures, such as installing a desktop environment or writing config files somewhere in the system.

Why just not use archinstall?

Archibald is for people who like to perform the manual installation by hand-book, but can't bother to install and configure every time their favourite set of packages afterwards. Custom window manager setup? No issue for Archibald, create your config file and it's done.

Requirements

All you need is:

• Python3 installed on your system.
• Sudo enabled on your user account (no root).
• If you have NVIDIA hardware, linux-headers installed.

How to use

Archibald can be run either in arch-chroot or a booted system. It is meant to be run as a standalone application, so it cannot be installed as a python module yet or used in another project (Maybe in the future).

You can simply git clone this repo and

cd archibald
chmod +x archibald.py
./archibald.py

Configuration Profiles are found under Archibald/profiles/. More on it down below.

Configuration

Profiles can be created and dropped under archibald/profiles/, they must respect a specific set of attributes that will be parsed by Archibald at runtime. Here is an example.py profile:

deps     = ["a_profile", "another"]              # Profile dependencies            | list, optional

name     = "Example"                             # Profile name                    | str, MANDATORY
        
drivers  = {                                     # Graphics drivers                | dict, optional

    "A Gpu Manifacturer": ["driverpackage1", "mesasomething"]

}
    
pkgs     = packages.ex + packages.ex2 + .. OR pkgs = ["pkg1", "pkg2" ...]          | list, optional
    
units    = ["test", "example"]                   # Systemd services to enable      | list, optional
    
groups   = ["wheel", "example"]                  # User groups to be assigned      | list, optional
    
shell    = "/bin/somecustomshell"                # Custom shell binary (chsh)      | str, optional

# If aur packages are present in your profile, paru will also be installed automatically
aur      = ["aurpkg", "another"]                 # Favourite aur packages          | list, optional

# If flatpak packages are present in your profile, flatpak will be installed automatically
flatpaks = ["org.some.flatpak", "another"]       # Flatpak list                    | list, optional

bash     = ["a command", "another command"]      # Bash arbitrary commands         | list, optional

files    = {                                     # Custom configuration files      | dict, optional
        
    "filename": [
        "some/system/path/like/{home}",
        "somerandomtexttoputinyourfile"
    ]
}