---
name: "freedom-maker"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "freedom-maker"
version: "0.34"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/freedom-maker"
---

# freedom-maker(1)

image builder for FreedomBox

## NAME

freedom-maker - image builder for FreedomBox

## SYNOPSIS

**freedom-maker** \[**--build-stamp**\] \[**--image-size**\] \[**--build-mirror**\] \[**--mirror**\] \[**--distribution**\] \[**--add-release-component**\] \[**--package**\] \[**--custom-package**\] \[**--enable-backports**\] \[**--disable-backports**\] \[**--build-dir**\] \[**--log-level**\] \[**--hostname**\] \[**--sign**\] \[**--force**\] \[**--build-in-ram**\] \[**--skip-compression**\] \[**--with-build-dep**\] \[**targets**\] \[**-h, --help**\]

## DESCRIPTION

FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal communications. It is a networking appliance designed to allow interfacing with the rest of the Internet under conditions of protected privacy and data security. It hosts applications such as blog, wiki, website, social network, email, web proxy and a Tor relay on a device that can replace a wireless router so that data stays with the users.

freedom-maker is a tool to build FreedomBox images for various single board computers, virtual machines and general purpose computers.

## OPTIONS

- **--build-stamp**

  Build stamp to use on image file names

- **--image-size**

  Size of the image to build

- **--build-mirror**

  Debian mirror to use for building

- **--mirror**

  Debian mirror to use in built image

- **--distribution**

  Debian release to use in built image

- **--add-release-component**

  Add an extra Debian release component (other than main)

- **--package**

  Install additional packages in the image

- **--custom-package**

  Install package from DEB file into the image

- **--enable-backports**

  Deprecated: Backports are now enabled for stable images by default

- **--disable-backports**

  Disable backports in the image

- **--build-dir**

  Directory to build images and create log file

**--log-level'**

The logging level - choose one of ('critical', 'error', 'warn', 'info', 'debug'). Default log level is 'debug'.

- **--hostname**

  Hostname to set inside the built images

- **--sign**

  Sign the images with default GPG key after building

- **--force**

  Force rebuild of images even when required image exists

- **--build-in-ram**

  Build the image in RAM so that it is faster, requires free RAM about the size of disk image

- **--with-build-dep**

  Include build dependencies in the image

**targets**

Image targets to build. Choose one or more of a20-olinuxino-lime, a20-olinuxino-lime2, a20-olinuxino-micro, amd64, arm64, armhf, banana-pro, beaglebone, cubieboard2, cubietruck, lamobo-r1, orange-pi-zero, pcduino3, pine64-lts, pine64-plus, qemu-amd64, raspberry2, raspberry3, raspberry3-b-plus, raspberry64, vagrant virtualbox-amd64

## EXAMPLES

**Example 1. Build BeagleBone image**

```
$ freedom-maker beaglebone
```

Build a FreedomBox image for the BeagleBone Single Board Computer.

**Example 2. Build all images**

```
$ freedommaker a20-olinuxino-lime a20-olinuxino-lime2
      a20-olinuxino-micro amd64 arm64 armhf banana-pro beaglebone cubieboard2
      cubietruck lamobo-r1 orange-pi-zero pcduino3 pine64-lts pine64-plus
      qemu-amd64 raspberry2 raspberry3 raspberry3-b-plus raspberry64 vagrant
      virtualbox-amd64
```

Build all the available FreedomBox images using freedom-maker.

## BUGS

See the **freedom-maker issue tracker**\[1\] for a full list of known issues and TODO items.

## AUTHOR

FreedomBox Developers

## NOTES

- 1\.

  freedom-maker issue tracker

  https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedom-maker/-/issues