This document consists of notes drawn from various sources, including the Installation Guide and the Beginners' Guide. The workflow below will follow these official guides when feasible however, whereas the official guides are intended for general application, this document outlines a specific installation and subsequently has a narrower focus.
The focus of this document's installation is a fresh, single-boot desktop-orientated installation of Arch Linux that uses Btrfs throughout. At present, this document also focuses on BIOS-emulated booting in lieu of UEFI. Further, the focus here will be on Xfce, a specific Desktop Environment, and other specific applications. Adaptation or alternative solutions may be necessary to best fit specific needs.
First your arch-chroot session. Now, make sure your file system has synced everything from primary storage (DDR SDRAM) to secondary storage (your installation drive(s)).
Check .
for OpenDNS DNS resolving over local ISP or VPS provided DNS.
You can use the same as the server section or NetworkManager depending on your preference. For NetworkManager install networkmanager network-manager-applet dhclient. See additional NetworkManager packages with .
Install sudo and bash-completion.
Check your work with then attempt to run something like and with and without sudo to test and verify. I recommend rebooting logging in as your new user, testing that you can do everything you need to do with sudo before proceeding.
Congratulations, you have progressed beyond the official installation guides and onto much deeper waters. Your system should be up and running, the basic post-installation tasks should be completed and you are now ready to move on to more system specific system configurations.
Suggest not using twinview or Xinerama. May need to disable composting though. I configured through NVIDIA and then checked my work by editing the file. Save to home then to .
Disable Firefox's blocking of web-forgeries and attack sites. This feature slows down Firefox's start-up and shut-down and takes up space for the database it maintains. This feature also relies on Google services.
Especially for SSDs it may prolong your drive's life to disable Firefox's disk cache.
To enable SABnzbd+ to create folders, your chosen Downloads directory will need to be chmod'd to 777 ().
Optional: ticker style syndicated news reader. Really neat. tickr
Allows running Windows browser plugins in Wine to be used in native GNU/Linux browsers.
Generate a random port number between at Random.org's Integer service and replace the default SSH port with that number and uncomment it in.
Change this to the new port number as generated and set above.
Test locally with the information below and then connecting from a remote system if feasible.
TTD: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/OS_Protection go back through this link and update this guide. Cross reference with the Hardening Guides.
For a VPS, disable VNC once you have SSH setup. Configure it to boot from the hard drive by default. With a VPS you are essentially surrendering your ability to control the physical protection of your server. Make sure to choose a good provider!
Uncomment in the line following .
Extract and copy the contents to the directory you want to store it it. For ease of use I just used a hidden folder in my home directory for now.
In SteamCMD, after logging in install the Team Fortress 2 dedicated server:
I ran into some errors first off here which were resolved by changing the permissions on my home directory (recursively) to 755 {{ic}chmod 755 -R /home/<USER>}}
You may need to repeat the update command above until you get it completed.
Once you get a consider running the command again just to verify the installation once more.
SourceMod is our focus here. AMXmodx is another consideration, but sourcemod seems to be the more popular one and the better maintained one. SourceMod is technically a plugin for Metamod:Source. As such, this also needs to be installed.
For Sourcemod you essentially need to rinse and repeat. Get the download from here. Extract Sourcemod in the same folder as you did for Metamod. The archive will have the folder paths set relative to that same folder.
Begin to configure ~/.tf2/tf/cfg/sourcemod/sourcemod.cfg is a good place to start. See links below for more information.
To extract .gz (no tar) use {{ic|gunzip -c ARCHIVE > EXTRACTEDFILENAME
SoureMod plugins will often (if not always) have their own configuration file that should be used over the server.cfg.
When starting off it is important to first set the super user password on the server.
After that, the service can be enabled and started.
To be safe, be sure to connect to your server as the "SuperUser" user first with your assigned password.
If you have problems with the database murmur's folders may need to be chrowned as discussed here.