The Automated [Gobo]Linux From Scratch automates the bootstrap of new GoboLinux releases.

Your host system must have the following development packages:

• subversion
• bison
• gawk
• make
• gcc
• g++
• xz-utils
• libxml2-utils
• xsltproc
• docbook2x
• libncurses5-dev
• texinfo
• git
• uuid-dev
• autoconf
• unionfs-fuse
• squashfs-tools version 4.0 or above.
• genisoimage (for mkisofs)
• syslinux-utils (for isohybrid)
• dosfstools (for mkfs.fat)

Also, the lfs user and group must exist. Please make sure that the lfs user has sudo privileges.

If you are bootstrapping GoboLinux from a Linux container (e.g.., LXC), certify that you are running a privileged container and that apparmor lets you mount the devpts filesystem. On most distros' /etc/apparmor.d/lxc/lxc-default you will have to replace a line that reads

deny mount fstype=devpts,

with

mount options=(rw,newinstance) -> /dev/pts/,

Logged in as lfs, simply create a work directory (e.g., /GoboLinux) and launch the main script passing that directory as its sole argument:

$ ./GoboALFS /GoboLinux