Friday, April 21, 2017

ARM64 for ZESTY 17.04

Systemd is the default but the ARM64 DEB package doesn't exist... not on the download disk, not on the base system image, not even if you mk-sbuild --arch arm64 zesty (which really is much easier than debootstrap.) So, it ain't happening right now. If you want a 64bit Pi 3 try an OpenRC distro. Life is much easier once that pain in the frickin' ass is gone. Unfortunately recent versions of Gnome Desktop require systemd so looks like Ubuntu users are stuck with it forever. My sympathies...

FWIW though, I've got everything else installed and working, just need /sbin/init to point to something other than /lib/systemd/systemd (or the @#$%ing package)

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