How to Install Vaults on Arch Linux

Vaults is an open-source password manager that allows users to securely store and manage their passwords. Here's how you can install Vaults on your Arch Linux system.

Prerequisites

• Arch Linux installed
• Access to the system terminal

Steps

1. Open the terminal on your Arch Linux system.

2. Clone the Vaults repository from GitHub.

   git clone https://github.com/MatrixEternal/vaults.git
   

3. Install the dependencies required to build Vaults.

   sudo pacman -S base-devel cmake qt5-base libgcrypt libsecret libx11
   

4. Navigate to the directory where you have cloned the Vaults repository.

   cd vaults
   

5. Create a build directory and navigate to it.

   mkdir build && cd build
   

6. Build Vaults using CMake by running the following command:

   cmake .. && make
   

7. If the build process completes successfully, you can now install Vaults by running the following command:

   sudo make install
   

8. Once the installation is complete, you can launch Vaults from the terminal by typing:

   vaults
   

   Alternatively, you can search for Vaults in your application launcher and launch it from there.

Conclusion

That's it! You've now installed Vaults on your Arch Linux system. You can use the password manager to securely store and manage your passwords.