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Getting started - Linux

To install Wonderful on your computer, you will need:

  • a Linux distribution released sometime in the last decade (maybe a bit more),
  • a CPU architecture compatible with x86_64 or AArch64,
  • the following command-line tools provided by your distribution: bash, git, make.

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Installation instructions

  1. Create the /opt/wonderful directory: sudo mkdir /opt/wonderful. Other installation locations are not supported at this time.
    1. On typical Linux installations, /opt can be only written to by the root user. This is why sudo is used here to elevate permissions.
  2. Give permissions to /opt/wonderful to your current user: sudo chown -R "$USER" /opt/wonderful.
    1. This allows all subsequent commands, including wf-pacman updates, to be executed without elevated permissions.
  3. Extract the bootstrap to /opt/wonderful: cd /opt/wonderful/ && tar xzvf [path_to_bootstrap_tar_gz].
  4. Run /opt/wonderful/bin/wf-pacman -Syu wf-tools (no sudo - you don’t need root!) to synchronize and update the toolchain’s package manager.
  5. Run source /opt/wonderful/bin/wf-env to configure the toolchain's environment variables.
    1. See Configuration → Environment variables for more information.
  6. Once complete, follow to the post-installation guide.

Troubleshooting

  • If you run into error setting certificate file: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt while trying to use wf-pacman, you may need to install your distribution’s SSL certificates package (f.e. ca-certificates on Debian).
getting_started/linux.txt · Last modified: by asie