Hello, i'am very new to BitCoin.
I'am interested in mining with my Dell i7 Laltop which iam running linux on.
Could someone please explain to me what steps i need to follow in order to have my Arch Linux mine Bitcoins or LiteCoins because its easier?
I would highly appreciate your help.
My advice: stop right there, don't mine with your laptop... Period.
Years ago, people could mine bitcoins with their CPU, then people found they could reach a much higher hashrate using their GPU, making CPU mining obsolete.
A short while later, companies found a way to produce chips with the sole purpose of creating sha256 hashes, they put these chips into so-called ASIC's. An outdated ASIC is thousands of times faster than your i7, using only a fraction of the electricity, so mining with your CPU is completely obsolete.
Nowaday, you can only mine bitcoin or litecoin using an ASIC, using anything else will produce so little hashrate you would literaly have to mine for years to reach the minimal payout at a mining pool. It would literaly be more cost-efficient to claim bitcoins from faucets (making $1-$3/day in the process).
A good ASIC would be an antminer S7 or S9, but at this point, you need one of these AND a super low electricity rate to even try to break even (plus, you need good PSU's, shelving, cooling, technical knowledge).