===== Installing Pacman =====


Because we create a chroot to build a liveCD, any Linux distro from Gentoo to Debian can work on Cherimoya. All you need to do is to install the  package manager to your host system.

==== Gentoo ====

Gentoo has a  package ready to go. Just unmask and emerge it:

''%%# echo sys-apps/pacman >> /etc/portage/package.keywords%%''\\
''%%# emerge -va sys-apps/pacman%%''

Because Gentoo does not have libfetch, you will need to uncomment one of the two XferCommand lines in /etc/pacman.conf. I recommend using the wget line:

''%%XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u%%''

==== Other distros ====

For other distros, such as Debian or Fedora, they either do not have a Pacman package, or it is too old. Not to worry though, **just download [[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22186524/files/getpac.sh|this script]]**, run it, and pacman will be installed.