Last weekend, I installed Arch Linux for the second time (I messed up my first installation). After the installation process, I found myself in a command line system (as expected), so I had to install a lot of applications by hand.

Just as a reference, I will list the packages I installed, so that I have them for if I ever have to reinstall Arch from scratch again.

Some basic command line tools:

• lynx

• openssh

• mutt

• pwgen

Services

• ntp

• cups

• networkmanager (interesting for laptop; replace standard network service by networkmanager)

Sound

• pulseaudio

• pulseaudio-alsa

• lib32-libpulse

• lib32-alsa-plugins

• alsa-utils

Xorg

• xorg-server

• xorg-xinit

• xorg-utils

• xorg-server-utils

• mesa

• mesa-demos

The freedom hating nvidia driver

• nvidia

• nvidia-utils

Xorg testing

• xorg-twm

• xorg-xclock

• xterm

• ttf-dejavu

Basic gnome

• gnome

• gdm

• gnome-utils

Basic development

• fakeroot

• subversion

• git

• patch

• python

• pygtk

General desktop apps

• gvim

• evince

• eog

• gimp

• network-manager-applet

• firefox

• gstreamer0.10-plugins

• vlc

• mplayer

• flashplugin

• heybuddy

• xchat

• droidcam

• google-talkplugin

LibreOffice

• libreoffice

• libreoffice-gnome

• libreoffice-calc

• libreoffice-writer

I am a wannabe Android developer (see Arch wiki for additional packages to install)

• eclipse

• android-sdk

• android-udev

• android-sdk-platform-tools

Tools which allow me to use Arch at work

• twinkle (SIP phone)

• rdesktop (for terminal services)

• sudo

• paprefs (I use a dedicated account for virtualbox, I start it with sudo, but I want sound)

• virtualbox (run Windows)

• virtualbox-additions

• qt (fot the virtualbox gui)

• thunderbird (plugins allow me to combine Google calendar and Exchange calendar)