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title: "Installation on Arch Linux"
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[Arch Linux](https://www.archlinux.org/) is a lightweight and flexible Linux distribution for x86_64.

Install the needed Python packages.

```bash
$ sudo pacman -S python
$ sudo pacman -S python-pip
```

and Home Assistant itself.

```bash
$ pip3 install --user homeassistant
```

Home Assistant is part of the [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/home-assistant/). This means that it can be installed with `pacaur`. This package is often broken or outdated:

```bash
$ pacaur -S home-assistant
```