My personal Void Linux installation

Void-x86_64 UEFI.md

🌱 Installation

• Network

  Before we begin, you must have the NetworkManager package installed on your system:

  # xbps-install -u xbps
  # xbps-install -S NetworkManager
  

  First disable any other network management services, such as dhcpcd, wpa_supplicant, or wicd. These services all control network interface configuration, and will interfere with NetworkManager:

  # rm /var/service/dhcpcd
  # rm /var/service/wpa_supplicant
  

  Then ensure that the dbus service is enabled and running & finally, enable the NetworkManager service:

  # ln -s /etc/sv/dbus /var/service/
  # ln -s /etc/sv/NetworkManager /var/service/
  

 

• Nonfree Repository

  Void has a nonfree repository for packages that don't have free licenses. It can be enabled by installing the void-repo-nonfree package.

  # xbps-install -S void-repo-nonfree
  

 

• Packages

  Before installing packages, do a full system upgrade:

  # xbps-install -Su
  

  Required packages:

  linux-firmware linux-headers intel-ucode
  vim nano opendoas base-devel terminus-font git wget dejavu-fonts-ttf
  traceroute net-tools openresolv wireless_tools bind-utils ntp xclip
  dialog pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio alsa-utils gvfs
  bluez xdg-utils xdg-user-dirs xdg-user-dirs-gtk libinput grub
  efibootmgr dosfstools mtools ntfs-3g os-prober bash-completion
  

 

🎼 Configure the System

• GRUB

  For enabling os-prober to detect other operating systems, Add or uncomment line below to /etc/default/grub file:

  GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
  

  Then regenerate grub.cfg:

  # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  

 

• System Tweaks

  • Change console font in /etc/rc.conf :

    FONT="ter-dXXb.psf.gz"
    

    Fonts are stored in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/

  • Change Shell

    # su
    # chsh -s /bin/bash 
    

  • Creating Default Directories

    # makewhatis -a
    # xdg-user-dirs-update
    

  • Localization

    Uncomment relevant lines in /etc/default/libc-locales:

    en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
    en_US ISO-XXXX-X
    fa_IR UTF-8
    

    Force-reconfigure the glibc-locales package:

    # xbps-reconfigure glibc-locales --force
    

  • Time Zone

    # ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/<Region>/<City> /etc/localtime
    

    In my case: # ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tehran /etc/localtime

    # hwclock --systohc
    

    To maintain accuracy of your system's clock, Enable isc-ntpd service to use NTP.

     

• sudo

  Append this to your /etc/sudoers.d/wheel :

  %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/halt, /usr/bin/reboot, /usr/bin/poweroff, /usr/bin/shutdown
  

  Also make sure line %wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL is in there. If it's not, add it there or uncomment it from the sudoers file.

 

• doas

  Pasted code below in /etc/doas.conf :

  permit :wheel
  permit nopass :wheel as root cmd halt
  permit nopass :wheel as root cmd reboot
  permit nopass :wheel as root cmd poweroff
  permit nopass :wheel as root cmd shutdown
  
  

  Note: The configuration file must end with a blank line.

  The owner and group for /etc/doas.conf should both be 0, file permissions should be set to 0400:

  # chown -c root:root /etc/doas.conf
  # chmod -c 0400 /etc/doas.conf
  

 

• Add DNS Servers

  To configure the NetworkManager to use resolvconf, paste these lines inside /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/rc-manager.conf:

  [main]
  rc-manager=resolvconf
  

  Add DNS servers in /etc/resolvconf.conf like below:

  name_servers="8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4"
  

  Force resolvconf to update all its subscribers:

  # resolvconf -u
  

 

• Disable beep sound (Unloading the pcspkr kernel module)

  To unloade the pcspkr kernel module, paste line below in /etc/modprobe.d/nobeep.conf:

  blacklist pcspkr
  

  After reboot, changes will affect automatically.

   

• Configure touchpad

  Paste these lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf:

  Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "devname"
    Driver "libinput"
    Option "Tapping" "on"
    Option "NaturalScrolling" "true"
  EndSection
  

 

Done!