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# Archbox
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Installs Arch Linux inside a chroot enviroment.
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## Why?
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Ever since I'm running some niche distros like Void, Solus, I had a problem finding softwares I need in their not-so-large repositories, also I don't like how flatpak and snap works. so i decided to create an Arch Linux chroot enviroment everytime I distrohop. Why Arch Linux? They have a really, really good repositories, oh and don't mention how big AUR is.
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## Installation
### Installing Archbox
It's pretty easy, just run ```install.sh``` as root.
### Installing chroot enviroment
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Before creating chroot enviroment, edit your username in ```/etc/archbox.conf```, then do :
```
sudo archbox --create <archlinux tarball download link>
```
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### Configuring filesystem automount
Execute ```/usr/local/share/archbox/bin/archboxinit``` on boot.
either create an init service, or create a @reboot cronjob.
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### Removing chroot enviroment
**IMPORTANT**, Make sure you've unmounted everything in chroot enviroment, if you're unsure which partitions must be unmounted, remove the init script and reboot, then delete the folder.
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### Entering chroot enviroment
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To enter chroot, do :
```
archbox --enter
```
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### Executing commands in chroot enviroment
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To execute commands inside chroot envirotment, do :
```
archbox <command>
```
for example, to update chroot, do :
```
archbox sudo pacman -Syu
```
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### Optional steps
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You may want to add this if you don't want to run archbox chroot without password :
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#### Sudo
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```
%wheel ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/share/archbox/bin/archbox,/usr/local/share/archbox/bin/copyresolv,/usr/local/share/archbox/bin/remount_run
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```
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#### Doas
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```
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permit nopass :wheel as root cmd /usr/local/share/archbox/bin/archbox
permit nopass :wheel as root cmd /usr/local/share/archbox/bin/copyresolv
permit nopass :wheel as root cmd /usr/local/share/archbox/bin/remount_run
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```
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### Misc
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#### Systemd services
Use ```servicectl``` command to manage systemd services.
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More info [here](https://github.com/smaknsk/servicectl)
To enable service on host boot, in archbox do :
```
sudo servicectl enable <service name>
```
To start services immediately, in archbox do :
```
sudo servicectl start <service name>
```
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This isn't actually using systemd to start services, rather it parses systemd .service files and executes it.
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#### Lauching apps via rofi
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Instead of opening terminal everytime you want to run application inside chroot, you may want to launch rofi inside chroot, install rofi and do :
```
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archbox rofi -show drun
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```
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#### Prompt
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If you use bash with nerd font you could add a nice little Arch Linux icon in your prompt, add :
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```
[[ -e /etc/arch-release ]] && export PS1=" $PS1"
```
to your ```~/.bashrc```
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#### Adding enviroment variables
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Edit ENV_VAR in ```/etc/archbox.conf```. For example, if you want to use qt5ct as Qt5 theme, edit it like this :
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```
ENV_VAR="QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct"
```
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An example with multiple enviroment variables.
```
ENV_VAR="QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct GTK_CSD=0 LD_PRELOAD=/var/home/lemniskett/git_repo/gtk3-nocsd/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0"
```
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### Known issues
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#### Musl-based distros.
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Although /run is mounted in chroot enviroment on boot, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not visible in chroot enviroment, remounting /run will make it visible. do :
```
archbox --remount-run
```
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after user login, Also if you use Void Musl, you need to kill every process that runs in XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when you log out, if you use ```startx``` you need to reinstall archbox with ```--exp``` flag and use ```startx-killxdg``` instead of ```startx```.
Tested in Void Linux musl and Alpine Linux.
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#### Polkit
```pkexec``` is kind of tricky to make it work in chroot, if you use rofi to launch GUI applications in chroot, you may not able to launch any ```.desktop``` files with ```Exec=pkexec...``` in it. If you really want them to work, you can do :
```
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sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/pkexec
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```
in chroot and prevent pacman from restoring ```/usr/bin/pkexec``` by editing ```NoExtract``` in ```/etc/pacman.conf```.
#### No sudo password in chroot by default.
You could use ```sudo``` in archbox, but you'll have no way to enter the password when doing e.g. ```archbox sudo pacman -Syu```. also you could enter the password if you do ```archbox -e < <(echo $COMMAND)```, but that would disable stdin entirely during $COMMAND.