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The LARBS are a series of shell scripts that will automatically install a fully-featured Arch Linux i3-gaps Desktop Environment, providing a perfect composite of both functionality and customizability.
Warning! Until I put up a video on YouTube on these scripts, they are in still actively in development and the usage may be haphazard or non-functional at times. I'm literally testing these on new installs several times a day, making several dozen little tweaks every 24 hours. Only run these on new systems where there is no threat of data loss (although I don't see how data loss could happen given what the scripts do, just exercise caution until the official release). If you do run into errors, email me (luke@lukesmith.xyz) and I might give you some credit.
For the official announcement of release, follow me on YouTube, by RSS or on Twitter (@lukesfiat).
In any install of Arch Linux, simply log in as the root user and run the following in the terminal:
curl -O larbs.xyz/larbs.sh
./larbs.sh
This will begin a prompt and the installation after some setup. Installation time can vary depending on internet connection. Don't be worried if it takes even a little more than an hour: it's setting everything up.
You should be able to run LARBS on an already-configured system, and also other distributions that use Arch repositories, but I recommend running LARBS only on fresh Arch installations (I've never tried it myself on other distros, but it should work on a distro with pacman and access to the Arch repositories).
You can figure out about the system in a lot of different ways:
You can also ask me questions via email at luke@lukesmith.xyz.
I'll be posting updates about LARBS either on my RSS feed or on Twitter.