M A N JA RO L I N U X U S E R G U I D E THE MANJARO DEVELOPMENT TEAM Copyright©2017theManjaroDevelopmentTeam. LicensedundertheAttribution-ShareAlike4.0InternationalLicence(the“Licence”);youmaynotusethis fileexceptincompliancewiththeLicense. YoumayobtainacopyoftheLicenceat: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode Unlessrequiredbyapplicablelaworagreedtoinwriting,softwaredistributedundertheLicenceis distributedonan“asis”basis,withoutwarrantiesorconditionsofanykind,eitherexpressorimplied. See theLicenceforthespecificlanguagegoverningpermissionsandlimitationsundertheLicence. Thesourcecodeforthisdocumentationcanbedownloadedfrom: https://github.com/manjaro/manjaro-user-guide/ user guide 5 The Manjaro Development Team Core Team PhilipMüller Owner,ProjectLeader,ProjectManagementandCo- ordination,MirrorsManager,ServerManager,Packager,De- veloper,WebDeveloper GuillaumeBenoit Developer,Moderation RamonBuldó Developer,Packager StefanoCapitani Maintainer,Packager BernhardLandauer CommunityManager,Packager,Maintainer,Mod- eration,News RobMcCathie Maintainer Marcus Developer,Packager TeoMrnjavac Developer AlexandreA.Arnt Developer,Moderation RingodeKroon Community HugoPosnic Developer Artwork DavidLinares Designer Documentation JonathonFernyhough EditoroftheUserGuide0.8.9-0.8.13,15.09-15.12, CommunityManagement,CoverartoftheUserGuide Sabras Wiki ManuelBarrette EditoroftheUserGuide16.08-16.10,17.0 Alumni RolandSinger Founder,Designer,Developer,WebDeveloper,Admin- istrator CarlDuff Community,DocumentationandWikiManagement,Script- ingandConfiguration Cumali CinnamonandGnomeCommunityEditionsMaintainer 6 manjaro linux DanS. OpenboxEditionsMaintainer Handy GlobalModerator,WikiContributor,CommunitySupport JoshuaStrot Developer,GraphicsDeveloper Acknowledgements Theawesomecommunityonforum.manjaro.organd#manjaro user guide 7 A note about Manjaro and Arch ManjaroisbasedonanotherdistributioncalledArchLinux. As such,itisalsoabletodrawsoftwarepackagesfromthecommunity- maintainedArchUserRepository(AUR).However,pleasenotethat ManjaroisnotArch,andanyenquiriesabouttheManjarooperating systemshouldbedirectedtowardstheManjaroforumsandInternet RelayChat(IRC)channelsalone. Forexample,althoughUbuntuis derivedfromDebian-andthereforesharessomesimilaritieswithits parent-therearestillsubstantialdifferencesbetweentheseoperating systemsandhowtheywork. SuchisthecasewithManjaro,which isfarfromjustbeingan“easytoinstall”or“pre-configured”Arch operatingsystem. Herearesomeofthekeydifferencesbetweenthe ManjaroandArchoperatingsystems: • ManjaroisdevelopedindependentlyfromArch,andbyacom- pletelydifferentteam. • Manjaroisdesignedtobeaccessibletonewcomers,whileArchis aimedatexperiencedusers. • Manjarodrawssoftwarefromitsownindependentrepositories. Theserepositoriesalsocontainsoftwarepackagesnotprovidedby Arch. • Manjaroprovidesitsowndistribution-specifictoolssuchasthe ManjaroHardwareDetection(MHWD)utility,andtheManjaro SettingsManager(MSM). • Manjarohasnumeroussubtledifferencesinhowitworkswhen comparedtoArch. Toreiterate,althoughManjaroisindeedanArch-derivative,itisnot Arch! Contents Introduction 11 I Getting Manjaro 13 Downloading Manjaro 15 Checking a downloaded disc image for errors 19 Writing a disc image 23 II Installing Manjaro 29 Booting the Live environment 31 Some useful definitions 33 Assisted installation on a BIOS system 37 Manual installation on a BIOS system 49 Assisted installation on a UEFI system 61 10 manjaro linux Manual installation on a UEFI system 73 10 Dual-booting with Microsoft Windows 87 Encrypting your partitions 95 III Welcome to Manjaro 99 The Manjaro desktop 101 Getting help 107 Maintaining your system 111 Index 133