It is pearOS, but with Arch Base. Yes! It uses vanilla arch, less bugs, easier, better etc.
I had enough with debian-based distros. pearOS with arch base, solve some of the big problems with pearOS, for example:
"this require you to reinstall with every new release"
"sudo apt upgrade would/will destroy your installation"
Not anymore. With arch, there no more base-hopping Now, with arch, the system is now Rolling Release, as it should be :>
You can do now sudo pacman -Syu and you will stil have the pearOS branding.
Make sure you satisfy the dependencies in the section below.
After that, run sudo ./build-binary and pray wait.
Note: The build script must be run as root (using sudo) since it needs to create chroot environments and install packages.
# Core build tools
sudo pacman -S arch-install-scripts # Provides pacstrap and arch-chroot
sudo pacman -S mtools # Provides mcopy, mmd for FAT filesystem operations
sudo pacman -S squashfs-tools # Provides mksquashfs for creating squashfs images
sudo pacman -S xorriso # Creates the final ISO image
sudo pacman -S e2fsprogs # Provides mkfs.ext4 and tune2fs for filesystem creation
sudo pacman -S git # Required for cloning pearOS-installer during build
sudo pacman -S pv # Required to see progress bars# For EROFS image type support (if used in profiledef.sh)
sudo pacman -S erofs-utils # Provides mkfs.erofs
# For GPG signing of the rootfs image (optional)
# GPG is usually pre-installed, but ensure it's available:
sudo pacman -S gnupgsudo pacman -S arch-install-scripts mtools squashfs-tools xorriso e2fsprogs git pvTo check if all required commands are available, you can use:
command -v pacstrap arch-chroot mksquashfs xorriso mkfs.ext4 tune2fs git pvIf any command is missing, install the corresponding package listed above.
This project is released under the GNU Pubilc License v3 or later
Copyright: Alexandru Balan @ Pear Software and Services S.R.L. based in Romania, Dacia Boulevard 133, floor D, Sector 2, Bucharest CIF: 50888207
