Arch Linux Downloads

Release Info

The image can be burned to a CD, mounted as an ISO file, or be directly written to a USB stick using a utility like dd. It is intended for new installations only; an existing Arch Linux system can always be updated with pacman -Syu.

Existing Arch Users

If you are an existing Arch user, there is no need to download a new ISO to update your existing system. You may be looking for an updated mirrorlist instead.

Package Archive

Older versions of packages can be found in the Package Archive. It contains daily snapshots of the package mirror. To use packages of a certain date, simply put Server=https://archive.archlinux32.org/repos/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/$arch/$repo into your mirrorlist. If you're upgrading an old installation which struggles to install zstd compressed packages, you need to install packages from e.g. 2020/01/01 which include a xz compressed pacman which is able to install zstd compressed packages.

Transition from the Official Repositories

If you plan to move from the official repositories to our community maintained repositories, follow these steps:

BitTorrent Download (recommended)

If you can spare the bytes, please leave the client open after your download is finished, so you can seed it back to others. A web-seed capable client is recommended for fastest download speeds.

HTTP Direct Downloads

Install images can be downloaded via HTTP from the mirror sites. Please ensure the download image matches the checksum from the md5sums or sha512sums file in the same directory as the image.

Checksums

File integrity checksums for the latest releases can be found below: