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@@ -43,7 +43,16 @@ There are several directories with their own purpose: ## Prerequisites -To build a VyOS image, you need a machine that runs Debian Jessie. Other build hosts are not supported. +To build a VyOS image, you need Debian8 "Jessie" environment (with jessie-backports repository). You can create it with [debootstrap](https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap) on Debian, Ubuntu and many distributions. To create Debian8 "Jessie" environment under vyos-chroot directory, run below commands. + +``` +$ sudo apt install debootstrap (Note: This is on Debian/Ubuntu, adjust it with your favorite distro package manager) +$ sudo debootstrap jessie vyos-chroot +$ sudo chroot vyos-chroot + +# echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list +# apt update +``` Several packages are required for building the ISO and all packages, namely python3, live-build, pbuilder, python3-pystache and devscripts. Individual packages may have other build dependencies. If some packages are missing, build scripts will tell you. |