Setting up Arch Linux LXC on ProxMox

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1. Edit the mirror list located at /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and uncomment a preferred mirror (preferrably closest to you)
2. Initialize Pacman GPG Keys
    - $> pacman-key --init
    - $> pacman-key --populate archlinux
    - $> pacman-key --refresh-keys -u --keyserver hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net
        *The use of the --keyserver flag is due to an error that currently occurs when using the default keyserver
3. Reinstall Arch keyring
    - $> pacman -S archlinux-keyring
4. Install Yay (if desired)
    - Create a user (you cannot run makepkg as root, you must be signed in as a user)
    - $> sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
    - $> git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
        * if git fails, complaining about libc.so missing run $> pacman -S glibc
    - $> cd yay
    - $> makepkg -si
        * during the install an error came up for a missing so file (libffi), resolve with $> sudo pacman -S libffi
5. Run a full system update
    - $> yay -Syu
6. If after a full system update and reboot networking is missing from your container you can resolve it
   by setting the nesting feature on Options of the container in your ProxMox datacenter admin.

Thanks for this. I was having trouble with pacman after creating my container. These commands got me started!