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.SH "NAME"
mkarchroot \- Creates an arch chroot in a specified location with a specified set of packages
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.sp
mkarchroot [options] [location] [packages]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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\fImkarchroot\fR is a script to create an Arch Linux chroot at a specified location with specified packages\&. Typically used by \fImakechrootpkg\fR to create build chroots\&. Apart from installing specified packages the chroot is created with an en_US\&.UTF\-8 and de_DE\&.UTF\-8 locale and a generated machine\-id\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\fB\-U\fR
.RS 4
Use
\fIpacman \-U\fR
to install packages\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-C\fR <file>
.RS 4
Location of a pacman config file\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-M\fR <file>
.RS 4
Location of a makepkg config file\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-c\fR <dir>
.RS 4
Set pacman cache\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-f\fR <file>
.RS 4
Copy file from the host to the chroot\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-s\fR
.RS 4
Do not run setarch\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-h\fR
.RS 4
Output command line options\&.
.RE
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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\fBpacman\fR(1)
.SH "HOMEPAGE"
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\fIhttps://gitlab\&.archlinux\&.org/archlinux/devtools\fR
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Please report bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker\&. Please do your best to provide a reproducible test case for bugs\&.