Installation

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Droid Overlay does not yet support installation on Android without connection to Arch Linux system (see [tickets:#6]). The only architecture with binary packages available is ARMv7. If you are interested in Droid Overlay being ported to other architectures write to our mailing list or create ticket on the tracker.
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Droid Overlay requires dedicated partition on SD card with at least 300Mb of free space (recommended: the same as for your /usr partition) and one of Linux-friendly (supporting POSIX access rights and symlink creation) file systems: ext2/3/4, XFS etc. (recommended: ext3).

See [Device Preparation] for instructions, how to create one.

Connect Android device and execute following commands on computer:

# mkdir /fhs
# mount /dev/target_android_partition /fhs
# cd /fhs
# mkdir -p var/{log,lib/pacman}
# ln -s . fhs

Add Droid Overlay tools repository to your /etc/pacman.conf:

:::text
[do-tools]
Server = http://sf.net/projects/droidoverlay/files/repo/tools
SigLevel = Never

and install [Build Tools] from it:

# pacman -Syu
# pacman -S archdroid-pacman

Now install pacman and preemptively download base group:

# pacman-archdroid -Sy filesystem pacman
# pacman -Sw base