Arch Linux ARM (alarm) installs

I agree here @Pudge, I know there is a difference from screenfetch to neofetch, one uses /etc/os-release while the other uses /etc/lsb-release (not sure if is in this order).

Need to know from where hardinfo is getting the info, anyway this doesn’t explain why gnome fails while other DE is working fine.

Did you install any of them offline and the other using netinstall?

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Neither. The Odroid N2 is an ARM device, and like the Raspberry PI it requires an image be downloaded and installed on a micro SD card. So I installed a base Arch Linux ARM image. Then EndeavourOS is installed from the ARM install script from here:
https://github.com/pudges-place/EndeavourOS-ARM
The script file endeavour-ARM-install-V1.0.sh installs an EndeavourOS with a choice of DEs. When I wrote the script, I knew where to change the branding for the console window, but not anything else. I will go down the path that manuel pointed me to, and see what comes of it.

Pudge

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Here is something interesting I found out today. Flatpaks work with EndeavourOS ARM SBCs.

I am fighting a audio problem where the Raspberry Pi 4 B + PulseAudio = skips in Audio. I thought too bad flatpaks don’t work with ARM, maybe a flatpak VLC (sandboxed) would work. Well flatpaks do work with ARM SBCs. They say you learn something new everyday. Well, I was running out of day when I discovered this. Whew, now I can go to bed.

P.S. It didn’t fix the skipping.
Pudge

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Did you delete your github repo for EndeavourOS-ARM? I can’t seem to find it now. I’m interested in trying to run this myself. Could you share a copy of the code you had please?

Just be patient, it won’t take long now…

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welcome

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I didn’t want to start a new thread for my question, so I chose this one. Is there a way to successfully install EndeavourOS on a Raspberry Pi One?

First of all, I am assuming by “Raspberry Pi one” you are talking about a Raspberry Pi 1B or 1B+

Anything is possible, but Endeavouros only supports armv7h and aarch64. Raspberry Pi 1B or 1B+ are armv6.

Archlinux Arm does support armv6, but one would be on their own installing the Archlinux Arm armv6 base install. Then you would have to manually install what ever packages you want manually.

Here are the specs for various Raspberry Pi models

The Raspberry Pi 1 B+

Raspberry Pi Model Released USB Ports CPU RAM Bluetooth WiFi
Raspberry Pi 1 B Feb 2012 2x USB 2.0 700MHz 512MB No No
Raspberry Pi 1 B+ July 2014 4x USB 2.0 700MHz 512MB No No

You are looking at a 700 Mhz CPU which I believe is a single core which supports ARMv6 Architecture, either 256 or 512 MB of RAM, USB 2.0 ports, 100 Mhz ethernet, no WiFi or Bluetooth, and a full size SD card for storage.

One could not reasonably run a full blown modern OS on this setup. Yes, theoretically it could be done, but I think the end result would be very disappointing performance wise.

Here is the Archlinux Arm installation instructions.

Here is the linux kernel for armv6 from the Archlinux Arm Package list

If you are just wanting to experiment and perhaps learn about Linux along the way, this might be an interesting project.

Pudge

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Thanks for your quick response.

You are certainly right with this assumption.

I will have a closer look.

That is for sure. Might be a project for holidays or boring times.

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