manjaro-arm-installer

Scripts for installing Manjaro ARM directly to SD/eMMC cards 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
• binfmt-qemu-static
• openssl
• gawk
• dosfstools
• polkit
• btrfs-progs (for btrfs filesystem support)
• cryptsetup (for encryption 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. 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 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 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

Known Issues:

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

Supported Devices:

• Raspberry Pi 4/400/3+/3
• Pinebook Pro
• RockPro64
• Rock Pi 4B
• Rock Pi 4C
• Odroid N2
• Odroid N2+
• Odroid C4
• Odroid C2
• Pinebook
• Pine64-LTS / Sopine
• Pine64+
• Pine H64
• Rock64
• LibreComputer Renegade (Roc-CC)
• NanoPC T4
• Khadas Vim 3
• Khadas Vim 2
• Khadas Vim 1
• Beelink GT1 Ultimate

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)

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 install Manjaro ARM from any distro, as long as the dependencies are met.