The Omarchy ISO is the only supported way to install Omarchy. It ships the Omarchy Configurator, installs Arch Linux, installs the Omarchy packages from the bundled mirror, runs target system setup in the chroot, creates the user, and runs omarchy-setup-user for that user.

Downloading the latest ISO

See the ISO link on omarchy.org.

Creating the ISO

Run ./bin/omarchy-iso-make; output goes into ./release. By default the ISO uses the Omarchy packages and tracks the quattro branch, from the stable mirror. Pass --edge to use omarchy-dev and omarchy-settings-dev from the edge mirror.

For local development, build the ISO from sibling checkouts:

./bin/omarchy-iso-make --local-source ../omarchy-installer ../omarchy-pkgs

Despite the local folder name, the first argument is the Omarchy source checkout (runtime commands, configs, setup scripts, themes, shell, migrations). The installer itself lives in this ISO repo.

Use --dev or --rc to build against those package channels. Both --dev and --edge select the dev packages from the edge mirror.

Testing the ISO

Run ./bin/omarchy-iso-boot [release/omarchy.iso].

Signing the ISO

Run ./bin/omarchy-iso-sign [gpg-user] [release/omarchy.iso].

Uploading the ISO

Run ./bin/omarchy-iso-upload [release/omarchy.iso]. This requires rclone configuration (rclone config).

Full release of the ISO

Run ./bin/omarchy-iso-release VERSION to create, test, sign, and upload the ISO in one flow. Add --rc to release an RC build instead.