can't complete Arch Linux installation guide

Question

I'm following arch linux installation guide (this one) step by step, but in some point I can't continue, in this part:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime

It can't be done because the file doesn't exist

Any idea?

Answer 1

the command you are using might be old. I just did an arch install and when using your command I received cannot access /etc/localtime no such file for directory.

However, in the /etc/local* I found /etc/locale.gen and it set my timezone when doing the date command to see

so try for example ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern /etc/locale.gen

Answer 2

The command you are talking about is not meant literally.

Region should be replaced with your region. City should be replaced with the name of a big city inside your region.

Arch Linux does not have a file for every city in the world, but has files for the larger cities. So choose a large city which is close to you.

I live in Vienna, so my command looks like this:

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vienna /etc/localtime

While you write the command into the shell, you can use tab-completion to see if the region/city you want to choose exists as an Arch-Linux-file/directory.

Answer 3

Are you sure the timezone you are using exists?

The available timezones can be checked using ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/*/*