Where to find manjaro-chroot as package?

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Dear Manjaro-Forum-Members,

To setup a legacy free (without pulseaudio, xorg(-server)) system, I installed a basic system with help of this tutorial from linux-aarhus and the Arch Installation Guide

To keep on working on my new system via my already established (legacy) system, it would be useful to have the manjaro-chroot running on my legacy system. The arch-chroot package is part of the arch-install-scripts. So where to find the manjaro-chroot package? It doesn’t seem to be in the repos. There is only a manjaro-chrootbuild, but I think its purpose differs from my needs.

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on any USB live iso manjaro , you have manjaro-chroot

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That I know, that is how I installed it. But I want to keep working on my system from my legacy system, not from an ISO.

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Actually it appears to be missing in buildiso and as stated above it is not in the rep’s

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Hi @mielouk,

It’s part of the manjaro-tools-base-git package:

$ pacman -Qo manjaro-chroot
/usr/bin/manjaro-chroot is owned by manjaro-tools-base-git r3038.3ecba91-1

Which can be installed with:

pamac install manjaro-tools-base-git

And it can be used with:

sudo manjaro-chroot -a

…for example.

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Thank you, that helped a lot! Though the pacman -Qo replied that no packages owns manjaro-chroot.

Now I can update GRUB from within the system.

What does the

-a

do?

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Because it wasn’t already installed.

It searches for the other installation to chroot into. If more than one is found, it presents a list to choose from if I recall correctly.

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Thank you for your help!

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It does more than that. It also mounts all of the pseudo-filesystems — i.e. /proc, /sys, /dev, et al — and, if the system boots in native UEFI mode, /boot/efi.

Note: manjaro-chroot was designed to work in combination with ext4 (or similarly traditional filesystems) only. It does not work in combination with btrfs.

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Seems to work with XFS.

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I’ve amended my post. :wink:

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Because it wasn’t already installed, the command you needed was:

pacman -F manjaro-chroot

# or update the database first
sudo pacman -Fy manjaro-chroot

# you can also specify the path to narrow it down
pacman -F /usr/bin/manjaro-chroot
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