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Pinebook Pro Manjaro ARM

  • Install Manjaro on a microSD card so you don't have to overwrite your custom Debian that came with your Pinebook Pro.
  • Go here to download and install to a microSD card using Etcher.

General Tips & Tricks

  • Install man pages (from terminal)
    • sudo pacman -S man-pages
    • sudo pacman -S man-db
  • Update The System (from terminal)
    • sudo pacman -Syu
  • Install Flatpak (from terminal)
  • Install Snaps (Click Here)

    pb1051 I had to install $pacman base-devel on my system to finish this install

  • Enable AUR
    • Open menu bottom left
    • Type 'software'
    • Choose 'Add or Remove Software'
      • This will open pamac-manager
    • On the menu bar toward right side you will see 3 dots in a line click on this and choose 'preferences'
    • Click on AUR and enable
    • Now you can use the paman-manager to install software including packages from AUR
    • Use yay in the terminal to search for AUR packages Ex: yay -Ss firefox

CPU Power

  • To set CPU governer to performance install the following programs and GUI.
    • sudo pacman -S cpupower
    • sudo pacman -S cpupower-gui
  • Open GUI and set to performance

Alternate CPU Power

  • sudo systemctl enable cpupower.service
  • sudo systemctl start cpupower.service
  • sudo pacman -S xfce4-cpufreq-plugin
  • Go to panel and add new item, search CPU and add CPU Freq Monitor.

Software I've installed

  • Mega.nz (cloud back-up)
  • Audacity (audio editing)
  • Chromium (browser)
  • Bomber (game arcade bomber)
  • Filezilla
  • Hexchat
  • Openshot (video editor)
  • Telegram (social chat)
  • Geany (lightweight IDE)
  • Phoronix Test Suite
  • Visual Studio Code OSS
  • Audacious