Gentoo
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64#Installing_Gentoo
You can do it from any live linux iso.
First become root.
fdisk -l
Figure out what disk the computer uses (not the USB!) eg /dev/sda Partition for UEFI:
fdisk /dev/sda
g
# boot
n
1
default
+256M
t
1
# swap
n
2
default
+16G
t
2
19
# root
n
3
default
default
w
mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
mkdir --parents /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
Set datetime, MMDDhhmm eg 120810302022 is 8th December 10:30 am 2022
date 120810302022
Download the openrc stage3 from here: https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
cd /mnt/gentoo
wget https://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/root/all/releases/amd64/autobuilds/20221205T133149Z/stage3-amd64-openrc-20221205T133149Z.tar.xz
tar xpvf stage3-*.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
rm -rf stage3-*.tar.xz
A good choice for MAKEOPTS is the smaller of the number of threads the CPU has, or the total amount of system RAM divided by 2 GiB. Mirrors can be found here https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/
vim /mnt/gentoo/etc/portage/make.conf
COMMON_FLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
USE="pulseaudio X wayland gles2 icu python tk -gnome -systemd -bluetooth"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="https://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo/"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" # UEFI only
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=y --autounmask-write"
LC_MESSAGES=C
mkdir --parents /mnt/gentoo/etc/portage/repos.conf
cp /mnt/gentoo/usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
cp --dereference /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/
mount --types proc /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount --rbind /sys /mnt/gentoo/sys
mount --make-rslave /mnt/gentoo/sys
mount --rbind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
mount --make-rslave /mnt/gentoo/dev
mount --bind /run /mnt/gentoo/run
mount --make-slave /mnt/gentoo/run
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
source /etc/profile
export PS1="(chroot) ${PS1}"
mount /dev/sda1 /boot
emerge-webrsync
emerge --sync
eselect profile list
eselect profile set X
emerge --verbose --update --deep --newuse @world
emerge gui-apps/wl-clipboard
emerge x11-misc/xclip
emerge app-editors/neovim
ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
echo "Australia/Brisbane" > /etc/timezone
emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data
nvim /etc/locale.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
locale-gen
eselect locale list
eselect locale set 4 # (US one just made)
env-update && source /etc/profile
emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin:6.0.12
emerge sys-apps/pciutils
emerge sys-kernel/linux-firmware
eselect kernel set 1
nvim /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /boot vfat defaults,noatime 0 2
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext4 noatime 0 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
nvim /etc/conf.d/hostname
emerge --noreplace net-misc/netifrc
ip a
nvim /etc/conf.d/net
config_wlp3s0="dhcp"
modules_wlp3s0="wpa_supplicant"
emerge net-misc/dhcpcd
emerge net-wireless/wpa_supplicant
cd /etc/init.d
ln -s net.lo net.wlp3s0
rc-update add net.wlp3s0 default
rc-service net.wlp3s0 start
rc-service dhcpcd start
Install grub (UEFI)
emerge sys-boot/grub
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot
nvim /etc/default/grub
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Install grub (legacy/BIOS)
emerge sys-boot/grub
grub-install /dev/sda
nvim /etc/default/grub
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
emerge app-admin/sudo
visudo # uncomment wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio,plugdev,video,sddm -s /bin/bash connor
nvim /etc/security/passwdqc.conf # enforce=none
passwd
emerge app-misc/neofetch
su connor
whoami
sudo whoami
reboot
nvim /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1
network={
ssid="..."
psk="..."
}
KDE plasma
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE
emerge sys-auth/elogind
rc-update add elogind boot
emerge sys-fs/udev
rc-update add udev sysinit
emerge sys-apps/dbus
rc-update add dbus default
emerge sys-auth/polkit
emerge sys-fs/udisks
rc-update add lvm boot
# rc-update add NetworkManager default
reboot
emerge x11-base/xorg-drivers
emerge dev-libs/wayland
emerge kde-plasma/plasma-meta
emerge konsole
emerge kde-apps/kwalletmanager
emerge kde-misc/bismuth
emerge kde-apps/spectacle
emerge kde-apps/dolphin
emerge kde-apps/ark
emerge dev-vcs/git
emerge dev-util/cmake
emerge dev-python/pip
emerge sys-process/htop
emerge net-libs/nodejs
export $(dbus-launch)
dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland
On an Acer Aspire the touchpad did not work, but in BIOS I changed touchpad: advanced to basic and then it worked.
SDDM
rc-update add xdm default
emerge x11-misc/sddm
mkdir -p /etc/sddm/scripts
nvim /etc/sddm/scripts/wayland-setup # export $(dbus-launch) && dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland
nvim /etc/sddm/scripts/Xsetup # setxkbmap us
chmod a+x /etc/sddm/scripts/wayland-setup
chmod a+x /etc/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
nvim /etc/sddm.conf
[wayland]
DisplayCommand=/etc/sddm/scripts/wayland-setup
[X11]
DisplayCommand=/etc/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
nvim /etc/conf.d/display-manager
DISPLAYMANAGER="sddm"
Discord
emerge net-im/discord-bin
When there is an update, edit
nvim `find / -name build_info.json 2> /dev/null`
Audio
Launch alsamixer and make sure each column has a green 00 under it (use the m key to toggle mute/unmute).
emerge kde-plasma/plasma-pa
IOSEVKA font
emerge media-fonts/iosevka
KEEPASSXC
emerge app-admin/keepassxc
Obsidian and OnlyOffice
emerge app-eselect/eselect-repository
eselect repository enable r7l
eselect repository enable src_prepare-overlay
emerge-webrsync
emerge --sync
emerge app-text/obsidian
emerge app-office/onlyoffice-bin
Mounting Hard Drive
I ran into this bug
https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-bugs-dist@kde.org/msg624454.html
fixed by creating /etc/udisks2/mount_options.conf
[defaults]
ntfs_defaults=uid=$UID,gid=$GID
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/538482/chrome-does-not-save-my-passwords
cd ~/.config/google-chrome/Default
rm 'Login Data'
rm 'Login Data-journal'
Merge conflicts: dispatch-conf and enter ‘u’