Installing and running cockpit on Arch linux for arm on a raspberry Pi

In short:

• Get and install pcp from aur.
• Get and install cockpit from aur.

Prep

Both pcp and cockpit will be built from source so install the necessary tools

$ sudo pacman -S base-devel git neovim

pcp

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pcp.git

Trim out failed dependencies from PKGBUILD that does not seem to matter:

makedepends=(git intltool gtk-doc gobject-introspection networkmanager libgsystem xmlto npm tar) 

# makepkg -sir

This takes a afternoon to compile on an old raspberry pi

cockpit

clone cockpit from aur and build. It builds without issue.

# systemctl enable cockpit.socket
# systemctl start cockpit.socket