Manjaro ARM Installer

Scripts for installing Manjaro ARM directly to SD/eMMC cards or USB sticks without the need for images.

This script is "interactive". Meaning that it asks you questions when run to customize your install. Like username, password etc.

Dependencies (Arch package names):

• bash
• wget
• git
• systemd
• dialog
• parted
• libarchive
• qemu-user-static-binfmt (only needed when script is run from other architectures than aarch64)
• openssl
• gawk
• dosfstools
• polkit
• btrfs-progs (for btrfs filesystem support)
• f2fs-tools (for f2fs filesystem support)
• cryptsetup (for encryption support)
• grub-efi-arm64 (only needed when script is run from other arcitectures than aarch64) (from AUR) (for generic-efi support)

Installing and using from Manjaro (x64 and ARM) repositories:

To use this script, please make sure that the following is correct:

• An SD/eMMC card with at least 8 GB storage is plugged in, but not mounted. This Script will remove everything on it.
• That your user account has sudo rights.

Then install the manjaro-arm-installer package with:

sudo pacman -Syu manjaro-arm-installer

Then reboot or run sudo systemctl restart systemd-binfmt. You can now launch the installer with:

sudo bash manjaro-arm-installer

Installing and using from gitlab:

To use this script, please make sure that the following is correct:

• An SD/eMMC card or USB stick with at least 8 GB storage is plugged in, but not mounted. This Script will remove everything on it.
• That your user account has sudo rights.
• That you have rebooted or restarted the binfmt service with sudo systemctl restart systemd-binfmt if you are running the script from any other architecture than aarch64.

Then use this to get it:

git clone https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/applications/manjaro-arm-installer
cd manjaro-arm-installer
chmod +x manjaro-arm-installer
sudo bash ./manjaro-arm-installer (Use Default stable branch)
sudo bash ./manjaro-arm-installer arm-testing (Use testing branch)
sudo bash ./manjaro-arm-installer arm-unstable (Use unstable branch)

Known Issues:

• Because dialog is weird, the script needs to be run in bash.

Supported Devices:

• ClockworkPi DevTerm
• Generic
• Generic EFI
• Beelink GT1 Ultimate
• Odroid C4
• Odroid C2
• Odroid HC4
• Odroid M1 (new)
• Odroid N2
• Odroid N2
• Orange Pi 4 LTS (new)
• Pine64-LTS / Sopine
• Pine64+
• Pinebook
• Pine H64
• PinePhone
• PinePhone Pro (Experimental)
• Pinebook Pro
• PineTab
• Radxa Zero
• Raspberry Pi 5's/4's/3's/zero2w
• Rock 3A (new)
• Rock64
• Rock Pi 4B
• Rock Pi 4C
• RockPro64
• LibreComputer Renegade
• NanoPC T4
• Quartz64 Model A
• Quartz64 Model B (new)
• Khadas Vim 1
• Khadas Vim 2
• Khadas Vim 3

Supported Editions / Desktops:

• Minimal (no xorg, no apps)
• KDE/Plasma (full plasma desktop with apps)
• XFCE (full XFCE desktop with apps)
• i3 (tiling window manager with gtk apps)
• Sway (tiling wayland window manager with gtk apps)
• LXQT (full LXQT desktop with some qt apps)
• Mate (full mate desktop with apps)
• Server (minimal install with LAMP and Docker)
• Gnome (full Gnome desktop with apps)
• Budgie (full Budge desktop with apps) (EXPERIMENTAL)
• Phosh (A mobile interface for phones based on GTK/Gnome)
• Plasma Mobile (A mobile interface for phones based on QT/Plasma)

Other notes:

This script is available in the Manjaro repository and can be installed with sudo pacman -S manjaro-arm-installer.

This script should be distro-agnostic, which means you can run the install script to install Manjaro ARM from any distro, as long as the dependencies are met.

Known caveats

Ubuntu stores the qemu bin formats in /usr/share/binfmts under different names and this will make the script fail.

//UNTESTED: Before starting the installer script, create a symlink to the qemu-aarch64 configuration

sudo ln -s /usr/share/binfmts/qemu-aarch /usr/lib/binfmt.d/qemu-aarch64-static.conf