Archbox

Installs Arch Linux inside a chroot enviroment.

Why?

Ever since I'm running some niche distros like Void, Solus, I had a problem finding what 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.

Installation

Installing Archbox

It's pretty easy, just run install.sh as root.

Installing chroot enviroment

Before creating chroot enviroment, edit your username in /etc/archbox.conf, then do sudo archbox --create <archlinux tarball download link>.

Entering chroot enviroment

To enter chroot, do archbox --enter.

Executing commands in chroot enviroment

To execute commands inside chroot envirotment, do archbox <command>. for example, to update chroot, do archbox sudo pacman -Syu.

Automount filesystem

If you use runit, copy archbox folder inside runit/ to whatever your distro store runit services and symlink it to whatever your distro store running runit services, if you don't use runit, you may need to create your own init script, or create a cronjob that runs on boot.

Optional steps

You may want to add this, if you don't want to run archbox chroot without password:

Sudo

%wheel ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/share/archbox/bin/archboxenter,/usr/local/share/archbox/bin/copyresolv,/usr/local/share/archbox/bin/archboxcommand

Doas

Idk you're on your own

Misc

Lauching apps via rofi

Instead of opening terminal everytime you want to run application inside chroot, you may want to launch rofi inside chroot, install rofi and do archbox rofi <rofi options>.

Pulseaudio

If the audio doesn't work, comment mount -R /var/lib/dbus $CHROOT/var/lib/dbus in init script and start pulseaudio inside chroot instead, do archbox pulseaudio.

Prompt

If you use bash you could add a nice little Arch Linux icon in your prompt, add [[ -e /etc/arch-release ]] && export PS1=" $PS1" to your ~/.bashrc