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Archlinux template
===============

Archlinux template is one of the templates made by Qubes community. It should
be considered experimental as Qubes developers team use mainly Fedora-based VMs
to test new features/updates.

Main maintainer of this template is [Olivier Médoc](mailto:o_medoc@yahoo.fr).
He also provides binary updates for the template, which are signed using this
key:

    pub   2048R/C1833B9C 2014-03-27 [expires: 2016-03-26]
          Key fingerprint = D85E E12F 9678 51CC F433  515A 2043 E7AC C183 3B9C
    uid                  Olivier MEDOC (Qubes-OS signing key) <o_medoc@yahoo.fr>


Install
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Currently we do not ship ready to use binary package. It can be compiled using
[this instructions](/doc/BuildingArchlinuxTemplate/).

Olivier provides binary package build by himself, you can get it for:
* Qubes R2 [here](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/54CE3FB1.3050708%40yahoo.fr).
* Qubes R3 [here](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/RI3KQVEEc30/h5nsNw_SHTQJ)



Known issues
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If you want to help in improving the template, feel free to [contribute](/doc/ContributingHowto/).