Install required packages on the host

The initial version of KaarPux is build using a host system. The host system is used to build a basic tool-chain used to bootstrap KaarPux.

Building KaarPux should work on x86_64 (64-bit) AMD/Intel platforms.

Any recent mainstream Linux distribution should be usable on the host system.

Certain packages and package versions are needed on the host system to build KaarPux:

To install the required packages on your host system, you can try to run:

master/bin/kx_pkgs4bootstrap

If this does not work, please install the packages mentioned above manually.

Important

Some distributions ship with mawk, which cannot be used to build KaarPux. Make sure you have gawk installed:

awk -W version | head -1