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remove mention of host OS, mention possibility of Debian/Ubuntu
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and SUSE Linux Enterprise (version 15)
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and its derivatives (openSUSE Leap). All of those support the
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x86_64 architecture, and RHEL8 also supports ppc64le and aarch64.
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Debian/Ubuntu probably could be supported but it would require some
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development in the `makedist` command.
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# Making the cvmfs distribution
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By default a distribution for `cvmfsexec` and `mountrepo/umountrepo` is
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created. To instead make a distribution for `singcvmfs`, add the `-s`
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makedist option. By default the distribution made will match the host
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makedist option. By default the distribution made will match the
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operating system it runs on, but another distribution can be selected
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with the `-m` option. See the makedist usage for supported machine types.
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or shell commands (note: it cannot read an image from cvmfs). For example,
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once you have [made a singcvmfs distribution](#making-the-cvmfs-distribution)
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the following should work (replace `centos:7` with a container matching
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the host's operating system):
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the operating system you're running on):
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```
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$ export SINGCVMFS_REPOSITORIES="grid.cern.ch,atlas.cern.ch"

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