Using this image as base ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ As per usual concern pacman lsign key should not be distributed. If you want to update packages you need to initialize public keyring: # pacman-key --init # pacman-key --populate After this you can update and install packages as needed: # pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring && pacman -Su # pacman -S butler-git If you want to distribute the image afterwards then you should strip the lsign key from the image: # rm -rf /etc/pacman.d/gnupg