Lab 3.1 `debootstrap` on arm64

kittychiu

A note for future student who are stuck with debootstrap. This issue wasted me 2 days to resolve.

This step on ARM64

sudo debootstrap xenial /mnt/chroot-ubuntu-xenial/ http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/

Will give error

Couldn't download http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-arm64/Packages

Because debootstrap is looking for ARM64 binary in given mirror http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ which does not exist.

To resolve, remove the mirror and this should work with the repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo debootstrap xenial /mnt/chroot-ubuntu-xenial/

johannesschielein

Unfortunately In my case that didn't work.
But I found another workaround by specifying one of the ports mirrors instead. Those should have the aarch64 (ARM) versions. http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports worked for me:

sudo debootstrap xenial /mnt/chroot-ubuntu-xenial/ http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports

chrispokorni

Hello,

Thank you for your input. Notes shall be added for systems with ARM processors.

Regards,
-Chris