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Do we need to download all the packages like bash,vi,etc using pacman in order to run arch-chroot command while installing arch?

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  • you install the "base" package in order to install basic packages like pacman, bash, vi as text editor,... arch-chroot changes the root and starts a shell on that system. how can you do that without having a shell installed?
    – Schwertspize
    Aug 14, 2015 at 8:39
  • Arch-chroot is not working...i have run the command pacman -i .......after that i installed nothing from the list
    – Anurag Maithani
    Aug 14, 2015 at 8:42
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    as the beginner guide says, pacman is for a running system, it installs software onto the root system. what you have done via pacman was installing the base system onto your install disk. you have to use pacstrap instead. please read the beginner guide
    – Schwertspize
    Aug 14, 2015 at 8:46
  • Ok....but packstrap is giving a list of packages......is there any package that must be downloaded to run arch-chroot command............because if iam not downloading any package the arch-chroot command is not running
    – Anurag Maithani
    Aug 14, 2015 at 8:50
  • You have to install everything that pacstrap wants you to install. It's the basic system.
    – ap0
    Aug 14, 2015 at 8:52

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You install the base system with the command pacstrap -i /mnt base suppose you have mounted the root partition to /mnt. In order to successfully arch-chroot into that partition and continue with the installation. It creates the directory structure and install basic software to run a system. You need to atleast download any shell... bash is just the default. if you want to use an other shell, for example zsh, you can also use pacstrap -i /mnt base zsh and chroot into /mnt by providing a parameter with the shell you want to use.

Have a look at the beginners guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_guide

arch-chroot is a installation script that is supposed to aid you. I is part of the arch-install-scripts package. It is preinstalled on the booting medium you are using. It won't be installed on the system that you use have mounted to install to.

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