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| author | Anton Hvornum <anton.feeds+github@gmail.com> | 2021-04-06 22:21:45 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-04-06 22:21:45 +0200 |
| commit | 741df875da43e745d4c9a40a54eb1c21e65e34bb (patch) | |
| tree | 9a1fd6acb196f0e3139df59c457fa60783139db9 | |
| parent | e1420af18936728df6893583e47b764099be89ea (diff) | |
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@@ -75,7 +75,18 @@ When doing so, attach any `install-session_*.log` to the issue ticket which can ## Using a Live ISO Image -If you are testing a commit from the repository using the vanilla Arch Live ISO image, you can replace the version of archinstall with a new version and run that. To do this, you will first need to establish a network connection and run `pacman -Sy; pacman -S git python-pip`. Once you have pip installed, run `pacman -R archinstall`. Then, clone the repo using `git clone https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall`, and cd into the archinstall directory. Alternatively, you can checkout a different branch or fork of the project. Build the project and install it using `python setup.py build; python setup.py install`. Then, run archinstall with `python -m archinstall`. +If you want to test a commit, branch or bleeding edge release from the repository using the vanilla Arch Live ISO image, you can replace the version of archinstall with a new version and run that with the steps described below. + + 1. You need a working network connection + 2. Install the build requirements with `pacman -Sy; pacman -S git python-pip` + *(note that this may or may not work depending on your RAM and current state of the squashfs maximum filesystem free space)* + 3. Uninstall the previous version of archinstall with `pip uninstall archinstall` + 4. Now clone the latest repository with `git clone https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall` + 5. Enter the repository with `cd archinstall` + *At this stage, you can choose to check out a feature branch for instance with `git checkout torxed-v2.2.0`* + 6. Build the project and install it using `python setup.py build` and `python setup.py install` + +After this, running archinstall with `python -m archinstall` will run against whatever branch you chose in step 5. ## Without a Live ISO Image |