---
name: "botch-y-u-no-bootstrap"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "botch"
version: "0.24-6+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/botch-y-u-no-bootstrap"
---

# botch-y-u-no-bootstrap(1)

Find out why Debian cannot be bootstrapped.

## NAME

botch-y-u-no-bootstrap - Find out why Debian cannot be bootstrapped.

## SYNOPSIS

- **botch-y-u-no-bootstrap** \[options\] *architecture* *Packages* *Sources*

  ## DESCRIPTION

Find the reasons why Debian is currently not bootstrappable. Assumes that Architecture:all packages need not be bootstrapped. Operates on the strong dependency graph.

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  Display help.

- **-k, --keep**

  Keep the temporary files

- **-T, --timers**

  time all program executions

- **-m, --allowsrcmismatch**

  Allow binary packages to be associated with a source package of a different version than themselves

- **-o, --output=***DIR*

  Output directory. Default is the current directory

- **-t, --tmp=***DIR*

  Temporary directory. Default is created by [**mktemp**(1)](/mktemp/1.md)

- **-v, --verbose**

  Be more verbose

- **-d, --debug**

  Maximum verbosity

- **-D, --develop**

  Execute tools from the source checkout instead of `$PATH`

## BUGS

See \<http://bugs.debian.org/botch\>.

## SEE ALSO

Debian doc-base Manual */usr/share/doc/botch/wiki/Home.html*

## AUTHOR

This man page was written by Johannes Schauer. Botch is written by Johannes Schauer and Pietro Abate.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012-2014 Johannes Schauer, Pietro Abate

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A special linking exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License applies to this library, see the COPYING file for more information.