On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 01:53:20PM -0600, Klaus Weidner wrote: > Both involve manually unpacking Debian packages into the chroot, so they > are "clean" as far as the resulting system is concerned. "manually" was the wrong word, the unpacking is automated but done using low-level tools such as "ar", without using the regular package management facilities. Something like this: ar -p "$Deb" data.tar.gz | gzip -dc | tar xpf - -Klaus