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title: Pinebook Pro Manjaro ARM

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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](https://www.manjaro.org/download/#pinebook-pro) 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)
    - sudo pacman -S flatpak
    - flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
    - restart computer
- Install Snaps ([Click Here](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snap-on-arch-linux))
    > [name=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 
