Scrutiny is a tool that helps you monitor the SMART status of your hard drives and SSDs, as well as perform disk health checks and other advanced tasks. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Scrutiny on Arch Linux.
To begin, make sure that Git is installed on your Arch Linux system. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S git
Next, you'll need to clone the Scrutiny repository from GitHub. This can be done with the following command:
git clone https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny.git
This will create a new directory called scrutiny in your current working directory, which contains all the Scrutiny files.
Before you can build and install Scrutiny, you need to install its dependencies. These can be installed with the following commands:
sudo pacman -S go
sudo pacman -S smartmontools
Once the dependencies are installed, you can build Scrutiny. To do this, navigate into the scrutiny directory and run the following command:
make build
This will build Scrutiny and create a binary file in the bin directory called scrutiny.
To install Scrutiny, copy the binary file from the bin directory to /usr/local/bin, using the following command:
sudo cp bin/scrutiny /usr/local/bin/
To verify that Scrutiny is installed correctly, run the following command:
scrutiny --version
This should output the version number of Scrutiny, indicating that it has been installed successfully.
Congratulations, you've successfully installed Scrutiny on your Arch Linux system! You can now use it to monitor the health of your hard drives and SSDs, as well as perform various disk-related tasks.
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