raspberrypi_archlinux.md

ArchLinux on a Raspberry Pi

Install the system to the SD card

Connect the SD card to your computer and open the terminal.

• Find the disk id

df -h

• Unmount the disk

sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s2

• Replace /dev/disk2s2/ with /dev/rdisk2 (it might not be disk2s2, verify first!)

sudo dd bs=1m if=~/Downloads/archlinuxarm-13-06-2012\ 2/archlinuxarm-13-06-2012.img of=/dev/rdisk2

Expand the SD partition

SSH into your raspberry pi and run

fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

• Delete the second partition

Press:
d [Enter]
2 [Enter]

• Create a new partition and use the default sizes prompted

n [Enter]
p [Enter]
2 [Enter]
[Enter]
[Enter]

• Save & Exit

w [Enter]
shutdown -r now

• After reboot

resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

Update the system & Install Packages

pacman -Syu
pacman -Sy base-devel
pacman -Sy core/dnsutils
pacman -Sy extra/python2
pacman -Sy extra/python2-pip
pacman -Sy extra/python2-lxml
pacman -Sy sudo vim zsh

sudo pip2 install mitmproxy

Update the hostname

touch /etc/hostname && echo "new-hostname" > /etc/hostname

nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1      new-hostname.domain.org   localhost.localdomain      localhost    new-hostname
::1            new-hostname.domain.org   localhost.localdomain      localhost    new-hostname

Add user

• Assuming the username is couto and it has sudo privileges wheel and uses the /bin/zsh shell instead of /bin/bash

useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/zsh couto
chfn couto
passwd couto

• to allow the wheel group to have sudo privileges:

visudo

## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Install Nodejs from source

ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python
git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git && cd node && git checkout v0.8.8
./configure --shared-openssl --without-snapshot
make
sudo make install

Security

Depending on the use you might want to consider some advice

• Ubuntu tips (ufw is quite useful)