qemu-debootstrap(1)

💅 qemu-debootstrap(1) — the manual page, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, you found the page for qemu-debootstrap, and yes it lives in section 1 of the Debian manual. buckle up, it's short but it's iconic ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

qemu-debootstrap — literally just a QEMU debootstrap wrapper. that's the whole name. short, sweet, slays.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

qemu-debootstrap [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you pass it [options] and it does its thing 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓

the qemu-debootstrap wrapper calls debootstrap(8), and the way it does that is by making use of the --foreign and --second-stage options. not me being obsessed with a two-stage process, but go off king 👑

on top of that, it copies the appropriate qemu-user-static(1) binary into place, and the whole point of that is so you can install cross-architecture chroots. yes, fr fr, that's the main character move 🫶

⚠️ and this is the important bit, so don't scroll past it: in order for it to work seamlessly, the binfmt-support package must be installed. no binfmt-support, no seamless vibes. that's the rule, periodt 💀

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• debootstrap(8)
• qemu-user-static(1)

go read those too, they're the supporting cast and they ate 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>. shoutout, we love a documented wrapper 🎀

and that's the whole page bestie, you're officially caught up ✨

source/version: 0.14.1+dfsg — dated 2011-07-02 — and it's still giving qemu-debootstrap(1) energy to this very day 🌈 mwah 💋