debootstrap is Debian GNU/Linux bootstrapper which allows you to install Debian base systems such as Debian or Ubuntu into a directory of your currently running system. This config is a getting started guide on how to debbootstrap on CentOS/RHEL. The debootstrap package is not available in a standard CentOS repository. To make it available we first need to enable EPEL repository. Download EPEL repository package:
# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
and install it using RPM command:
# rpm -Uvh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
The EPEL repository should now be enabled. To confirm run:
# yum repolist | grep epel * epel: epel.mirror.digitalpacific.com.au
Now, we simply install debootstrap using yum:
# yum install debootstrap.noarch
All should be ready for bootstrapping. To find out what debootstrap scripts are available run:
# ls /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/ breezy etch-m68k hoary jessie maverick potato sarge sid testing vivid woody dapper feisty hoary.buildd karmic natty precise sarge.buildd squeeze trusty warty woody.buildd edgy gutsy intrepid lenny oldstable quantal sarge.fakechroot stable unstable warty.buildd etch hardy jaunty lucid oneiric raring saucy stretch utopic wheezy
At this stage we know what release we want. We also need to create destination directory, choose architecture and mirror. The following linux command will install
Ubuntu Trusty Tahr amd64 release into chroot directory using http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ as mirror:
# mkdir chroot # debootstrap --arch=amd64 trusty chroot http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/
In case you see error:
E: No pkgdetails available; either install perl, or build pkgdetails.c from the base-installer source package
Fix it by installation of perl package:
# yum install perl