Install/Bootstrap Arch Linux system without using pacman
If you have ever wanted to install Arch Linux from another distribution, then you have come across the need to download pacman. Now there is no need for this, it is enough to have a basic set of utilities to install
Execute the script with the NOCHROOT=1 option if you do not have root access or chroot
archbashstrap --help
You can grab packages file from this repository (only base group), or create your own. To create file packages with all the required packages for the base group, make sure you have installed the pacman-contrib package, run following command on Arch Linux machine and then copy packages to your local pc
pactree -l -u -s base > packages
If you installed this package from the AUR, you can take the packages file from the file /usr/share/archbashstrap/packages
At the moment, you can create a file only with the "base" group, using the core and extra repositories, since the rest are difficult to parse and provide a package selection dialog. Anyway, you can install other packages after bootstrap.
sed
coreutils
curl
tar
zstd (because of new packages compression method)
xz