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Basic tools

First off, we need to install some basic tools to be able to set up the dotfiles correctly.

AUR with paru

  1. First install git, so we can grab an AUR helper named paru.

    Terminal window
    sudo pacman -S git

  2. In order for us to install this package in a second, we also need the base-devel package group

    Terminal window
    sudo pacman -S base-devel

  3. Now clone the repository paru-bin from AUR (this way we don’t need to compile it), as well as build and install it.

    Terminal window
    git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git
    cd paru-bin
    makepkg -si

  4. You can now remove the ~/paru-bin directory, as paru is able to manage/update itself.

  5. From now on we can simply substitute pacman with paru.

SSH

In order to switch to ssh URLs later in this document (e.g. for my dotfiles repo), we of course need to install it with the openssh package.