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authorDaniil Baturin <daniil@baturin.org>2018-11-20 01:45:00 +0700
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-11-20 01:45:00 +0700
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## Prerequisites
-To build a VyOS image, you need Debian 8 "Jessie" environment (with jessie-backports repository).
-You can create it with [debootstrap](https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap) on Debian, Ubuntu and many
-other distributions. To create a Debian 8 "Jessie" environment under vyos-chroot
-directory, run these commands:
+To build a VyOS 1.2.0 image, you need Debian 8 "Jessie" environment (with jessie-backports repository).
-Note: This is on Debian/Ubuntu, adjust it for your favorite distro package manager!
+If you do not have a Debian Jessie machine, you may create a chroot environment with the
+[debootstrap](https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap) tool.
+
+For example, on another version of Debian or another Debian-based distro, these commands will work:
```bash
$ sudo apt-get install debootstrap
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ $ echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sour
$ apt-get update
```
+If you are working on a Debian Jessie machine, no special preparation is needed, you only
+need to enable jessie-backports and install build dependencies.
+
Several packages are required for building the ISO:
* `python3`
* `live-build`