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 ====== Development Environment ====== ====== Development Environment ======
  
-The AstLinux Development Environment (ADE) is maintained in a repository on GitHub using subversion (SVN) or GIT.+The AstLinux Development Environment (ADE) is maintained in a repository on GitHub.
  
 AstLinux is cross-compiled, generating target images for x86_64 CPU architectures, using a custom maintained version of [[https://buildroot.org|Buildroot]]. AstLinux is cross-compiled, generating target images for x86_64 CPU architectures, using a custom maintained version of [[https://buildroot.org|Buildroot]].
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 !!Tip ->!! Use a "Minimal Install" of your Linux distro, dedicated to building AstLinux. !!Tip ->!! Use a "Minimal Install" of your Linux distro, dedicated to building AstLinux.
  
-!!Tip ->!! To run Debian 10/11 in a LXC container on Proxmox 6/7/8, you need to enable "Nesting" under "Options/Features", otherwise you'll end up getting "Permission denied" errors when starting several services (e.g. apache2, ntp). Creating a Flash Image does **not** work in a LXC container!+===== Promox notes ===== 
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 +!!Tip ->!! To run Debian 10/11 in a LXC container on Proxmox 6/7/8, you need to enable "Nesting" under "Options/Features", otherwise you'll end up getting "Permission denied" errors when starting several services (e.g. apache2, ntp). Creating a Flash Image does **not** work in a LXC container (you need a "full" VM for this)! 
 + 
 +!!Tip ->!! There seems to be a problem when running the "Linux Build System" in Proxmox as __LXC container__ **AND** __on a ZFS filesystem__. If you get errors like this: 
 +  genext2fs: couldn't allocate a block (no free space) 
 +although there is plenty of free space. It doesn't happen when running the filesystem on LVM or LVM-thin. 
 ===== Prerequisites ===== ===== Prerequisites =====
  
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 !!Important ->!! You should **not be root**, login as a non-admin user. !!Important ->!! You should **not be root**, login as a non-admin user.
 ===== Checking out the Source ===== ===== Checking out the Source =====
-Now we will grab AstLinux via SVN:  +Now we will grab AstLinux via ''git'': 
- +
-  svn co https://github.com/astlinux-project/astlinux.git/trunk astlinux/trunk +
- +
- //("trunk" is the latest development branch)// +
- +
-**Explanation:** +
- +
- ''svn'' - name of subversion binary should not be root. +
- +
- ''co'' - short for "checkout", grab source from url: +
- +
- ''svn:...'' - URL of AstLinux SVN repository, an argument to co to specify the location of checkout+
  
- ''astlinux/trunk'' - store the previous URL in a local directory on this machine in the "astlinux" directory+  git clone https://github.com/astlinux-project/astlinux.git astlinux/trunk
  
-You should see a bunch of files scroll down your machine. Depending on the speed of your connection, this could take a few minutes or a few hours (hopefully just a few minutes - we want to start building)!+You should see a bunch of files scroll down your machine. Depending on the speed of your connection, this could take a few seconds or a minute.
  
-Once the checkout process has completed, cd into astlinux/trunk to look around:+Once the clone process has completed, cd into astlinux/trunk to look around:
  
   cd astlinux/trunk   cd astlinux/trunk
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