Dec 18, 2025ย ยท Welcome to the ArchWiki: your source for Arch Linux documentation on the web. Visit the Table of contents for a listing of article categories.

Arch Linux is an independently developed, x86-64 general purpose GNU/Linux distribution versatile enough to suit any role. Development focuses on simplicity, minimalism, and code elegance.

It is intended for new installations only; an existing Arch Linux system can always be updated with pacman -Syu. Images for installing Arch can be downloaded via BitTorrent or right here in your โ€ฆ

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Dec 23, 2025ย ยท This document is a guide for installing Arch Linux using the live system booted from an installation medium made from an official installation image. The installation medium provides โ€ฆ

6 days agoย ยท Arch Linux releases are simply a live environment for installation or rescue, which include the base meta package and a few other packages. The releases are issued usually in the first half of โ€ฆ

Arch any x86_64 Repository Core Core-Testing Extra Extra-Testing Gnome-Unstable KDE-Unstable Multilib Multilib-Testing

Dec 28, 2025ย ยท Arch Linux strives to maintain the latest stable release versions of its software as long as systemic package breakage can be reasonably avoided. It is based on a rolling-release system, โ€ฆ

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