Manjaro Awesome

Build your own Manjaro Linux installation ISO with AwesomeWM via GitHub Actions. New releases every Sunday.

ISO

Download release

• Download the latest release.
  curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/luho91/manjaro-awesome/releases/latest | grep "browser_download_url" | cut -d '"' -f 4 | xargs -n 1 wget
• Unpack the zip.
  7z x manjaro-awesome-$VERSION.iso.zip
• Check integrity.
  sha1sum -c manjaro-awesome-$VERSION.iso.sha1
sha256sum -c manjaro-awesome-$VERSION.iso.sha265
sha512sum -c manjaro-awesome-$VERSION.iso.sha512
• Burn the ISO to desired medium or use it directly in a VM.

Install release

• Boot from the created installation medium.
• Login with user manjaro, password manjaro, if necessary.
• Press Super+p and enter install to find the installation tool.
• Install Manjaro.

First use

Prepare for Ansible

• Update Pacman mirrors.
  sudo pacman-mirrors --country Germany,France,United_States
  • Adjust country list as needed. Some countries are always faulty and will cause Pacman to fail updating.
• Download AUR helper yay.
  sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si
• (This is needed for releases before 202502090259) Install ansible.
  sudo pacman -Sy ansible

Ansible

• Change into the ansible directory.
• Install the requirements. ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
• Set the user variable in master.yml to your user name.
• Inspect the tasks in each role and decide which ones you want to run for installation. Use # prefix on lines you want to disable (or delete them). roles/some_role/tasks/main.yml
• If you don't want to set up everything with ansible, or simply not at this time, the role base is meant to give you a proper, usable, but still somewhat minimalistic result.
• To be continued ...

Config and Dotfiles

• ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua TBD
• ~/.bashrc TBD
• ~/.aliases TBD

Known issues

• If you can't find the NetworkManager gui for internet access, try running nm-applet from terminal.
• ansible is not pre-installed for releases before 202502090259.
• yay is not pre-installed.