Re: installing (k)ubuntu in chroot?

[Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 11:40, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I don't know if this makes sense, but is it possible to install (k)ubuntu
> in a chroot? I want to give breezy a try, most specifically their eclipse
> version.

Yes I did it, also for breezy 32 bit it's pretty easy. 
I Installed, in a pure64 sid chroot, to do not mess my system too much, the 
debootstrap package from ubuntu sources and used to debootstrap a breezy 
chroot. It's as easy as:

# debootstrap --verbose --arch i386 breezy ./breezy32 
http://localhost:9999/ubuntu/

Where the last http can be also a ubuntu primary mirror like 
http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ and if you omit --arch or put it amd64 
will bring you the x86_64 ubuntu breezy (or hoary), I'll recommend apt-proxy 
to save bandwidth if you have storage, btw.

Then apt-get in (remember to copy relevant files from /etc, like resolv.conf 
and set up the chroot as integrated as you need... read X auth...) and 
install kubuntu-desktop, that have 1 broken suggested package that needs 
libcairo1 from warty sources!

Then You have it.
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