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Installing Pacman

Introduction

Pacman is Arch Linux's package manager, known for its speed and simplicity. We'll adapt it for our custom distro.

Prerequisites

  • Basic system installed
  • Build tools available

Build Steps

  1. Download pacman:

    cd /sources
wget https://sources.archlinux.org/pacman.git
cd pacman

  2. Configure:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --localstatedir=/var

  3. Build and install:

    make
make install

Initial Configuration

# Create pacman config
cat > /etc/pacman.conf << EOF
[options]
RootDir = /
DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
GPGDir = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/

[core]
Server = file:///repo/core

[extra]
Server = file:///repo/extra
EOF

Exercises

  • Exercise 1: Build and install pacman.
  • Exercise 2: Configure pacman.conf for local repositories.

Next Steps

Proceed to Chapter 7.3 for package building.