JuJu

JuJu: the portable GNU/Linux distribution.

Description

JuJu is a small and portable GNU/Linux distribution based on ArchLinux. It allows to have an isolated GNU/Linux environment inside the home directory without the need to have root privileges that is accessible via chroot and run on whatever Linux distribution.

JuJu only contains the package manager (called pacman and yaourt) in order to access to a wide range of packages from ArchLinux repositories.

The main advantage of using JuJu are:

• It gives an isolated environment in which you can install packages without affecting a production system.
• Access to a really wide range of packages even inside GNU/Linux systems that contains limited repositories (such as CentOS and RedHat).
• Install packages without the need to be root.

Quickstart

After installing JuJu (see next section) you can run juju either as root or as normal user. To run as root:

# juju

To run as normal user:

$ juju -n

The first time you execute it, the script will download the JuJu image and place it to the default directory ~/.juju.

Installation

Just clone JuJu somewhere (for example in ~/juju):

$ git clone git://github.com/fsquillace/juju ~/juju
$ export PATH=~/juju/bin:$PATH

JuJu can only works on GNU/Linux OS with kernel version greater or equal 2.6.32 on 64 bit architecture (32 bit and arm will be available soon).

Advanced usage

You can build a new JuJu image from scratch by running the following command:

# juju -b

In this way the script will create a directory containing all the essentials files to make JuJu working properly (such as pacman, yaourt, arch-chroot and proot). Remember that the script to build the image must run in an ArchLinux OS with arch-install-scripts installed.

To install the image named juju-x86_64.tar.gz:

# juju -i juju-x86_64.tar.gz

License

Copyright (c) 2012-2014

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Author

Filippo Squillace feel.squally@gmail.com

WWW

https://github.com/fsquillace/juju