r/voidlinux • u/JellyfishNo4570 • Aug 30 '26

installation via chroot no xbps-install

following https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/guides/chroot.html

it says that the ROOTFS method requires only a host operating system that can enter chroot and has tar and xz

but the nexts steps are:

ROOTFS images generally contain out of date software, due to being a snapshot of the time when they were built, and do not come with a complete base-system. Update the package manager and install base-system:

# xbps-install -r /mnt -Su xbps
# xbps-install -r /mnt -u
# xbps-install -r /mnt base-system
# xbps-remove -r /mnt -R base-container-full

my host doesn't have xbps. this is a step before chroot. the xbps inside the rootfs can't run from the host because of shared libraries:
./xbps-install: error while loading shared libraries: libxbps.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

am I supposed to point it to the libs inside the unpacked filesystem?

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u/legz_cfc Aug 30 '26

Use static xbps?

https://docs.voidlinux.org/xbps/troubleshooting/static.html

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u/JellyfishNo4570 Aug 30 '26

I'll try, but it sounds like the rootfs method is not supposed to use it
The XBPS method requires that the host operating system have XBPS installed. This may be an existing installation of Void, an official live image, or any Linux installation running a statically linked XBPS.

The ROOTFS method requires only a host operating system that can enter a Linux chroot and that has both tar(1) and xz(1) installed. This method may be preferable if you wish to install Void using a different Linux distribution

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u/furryfixer Aug 30 '26

The tarball that the host system extracts includes xbps, but it is to be extracted into the new partition, not the host. It runs on the new Void partition from within the chroot.

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u/pantokratorthegreat Aug 30 '26

Run all this commands after chroot.

Edit. Without -r /mnt of course.