I am new to Linux and running into a problem while trying to install Arch Linux on bare metal with UEFI.
I have been following the installation guide on the Arch wiki and, like the title says, after I enter the chroot with "arch-chroot /mnt" the nano command is not found. I believe that it should be installed because I used the pacstrap script earlier to install the base, base-devel, linux, and linux-firmware packages to /mnt. Also, I am able to use the nano command before entering chroot.
Is there anything I am missing or misunderstand?
This is also my first post so let me know if there is any other information I should add to the post.
Best Answer
Currently Arch Linux repositories have a much different 'base' group than before, which now only includes the bare minimum required for all installation types (including VMs and minimal "containers"), rather than the previous 'base' group which had a grab-bag of things only useful on physical PCs or not useful at all.
As the installation guide mentions, the new 'base' group does not include a text editor (nor the kernel, nor manual pages, nor network software, etc.)
You can install nano by running pacstrap again, with the wanted packages listed.