TUTORIALS Run Manjaro
Quickly install Manjaro on the Pi 4
MANJARO
Les Pounder reveals how to get Manjaro Arm up and running on the Raspberry Pi 4 / 400, and start using the GPIO with Python.
OUR EXPERT
Les Pounder is associate editor at Tom’s Hardware and a freelance creative technologist. He blogs at bigl.es.
YOU NEED
A Raspberry Pi 4 or 400
16GB Micro
SD card
Breadboard
2 x male to female jumper wires
220 Ohm Resistor (RED-RED-BLACK-GOLD)
An LED
Code: https:// github.com/ lesp/LXF272-Manjaro-Arm/ archive/main. zip
Mention Raspberry Pi and we think Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian), but there are many more distributions available for the Raspberry Pi. In this tutorial we’ll download and install Manjaro Arm on a Raspberry Pi 4. Manjaro Arm is a 64-bit operating system designed for the Raspberry Pi 3, 4 and 400. We’ll cover how to update our system and install software using the pacman package manager. Finally we’ll learn how to use the GPIO with Python in Manjaro.
Manjaro Arm
Manjaro for Arm CPUs comes in a range of flavours. We chose the XFCE version from https://manjaro.org/ download/#ARM and then downloaded and extracted the image from the archive. To write this to an 8GB or larger blank micro SD card, we used Balena Etcher (www.balena.io/etcher) and followed the simple process of flashing the image to the micro SD card. When the process is complete, eject the micro SD card and insert into the Raspberry Pi 4, then connect your peripherals and finally insert the power to start the boot process.