Build your first image

Migration notice

After more than 2 years of development, we have grown beyond what rbuild's underlying dependencies are capable of. We have switched to a lower-level tool and completely restructured the project.

Please use rsdk for the new project, which is meant to be compatible with existing rbuild systems. rbuild is now in maintenance mode.

Install dependencies

Currently, due to our dependency on debos, we can only run rbuild on x86 based system. If you are building in a virtual machine, you need to enable nested virtualization, as KVM is required for building the image.

Debian 12 / Ubuntu 22.04

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y git

# Podman (recommended)
sudo apt install -y podman podman-docker
sudo touch /etc/containers/nodocker
# Docker
#sudo apt install -y docker.io
#sudo adduser $USER docker
#sudo reboot

Check out the code

git clone https://github.com/radxa-repo/rbuild.git

Build your first image

Once the repo is cloned on your machine, you can run rbuild without any arguments to check the help message:

cd rbuild
./rbuild

Most options listed in the help messages are targetting at developers. If you only want to build an image locally, you can run rbuild with only the required arguments:

# Build radxa-cm3-sodimm-io image with default OS (currently Debian Bullseye) and flavor (CLI)
./rbuild radxa-cm3-sodimm-io
# Build rock-5b Debian image with KDE
./rbuild rock-5b kde

Supported products, suites, and flavors are listed at the end of the help message.