Although manual building and installation of libraries needed for correct use of Infinality patches does not seem to be extremely difficult, I have realized that it is still confusing for many users as to what should be installed (and where) in order to make fonts render as expected. That is why, in order to simplify the process as much as possible, I decided to create a custom infinality-bundle repository, containing three obligatory packages (x86_64, i686 & multilib) that together should make your screens look way closer to mine.

In order to use the repository, please add the following to your pacman.conf:

[infinality-bundle]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/$arch

If you want to access multilib libraries in x86_64 architecture as well, add also this:

[infinality-bundle-multilib]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/multilib/$arch

Additionaly, if you want to use a comprehensive collection of free fonts from the infinality-bundle-fonts repository, append

[infinality-bundle-fonts]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/fonts

as well.

Next, import and sign the key:

pacman-key -r 962DDE58
pacman-key --lsign-key 962DDE58

Refresh the package list and upgrade the system if necessary:

pacman -Syyu

Finally, install the bundle with

pacman -S infinality-bundle

for the minimal variant or, if you prefer a more complex and feature-rich solution, add any of infinality-bundle-multilib, ibfonts-meta-base and ibfonts-meta-> extended (for the optional font collection). (Note that if you choose ibfonts-meta-extended, the base set of packages will be pulled automatically as its dependencies.)

All packages were created in a separate, clean chroot environment, and default build settings were used to make them fully compatible with the rest of your systems.

The new packages can be used as drop-in replacements for corresponding generic Arch Linux libraries. And that is it. smile

For more information, see Infinality-bundle+fonts.

creating the .gnupg folder solved my issue:

mkdir /root/.gnupg

via => infinality-bundle: good looking fonts made (even) easier / Community Contributions / Arch Linux Forums

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