---
name: "mkarchroot"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "devtools"
version: "1:1.5.3-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mkarchroot"
---

# mkarchroot(1)

Creates an arch chroot in a specified location with a specified set of packages

## NAME

mkarchroot - Creates an arch chroot in a specified location with a specified set of packages

## SYNOPSIS

mkarchroot \[options\] \[location\] \[packages\]

## DESCRIPTION

*mkarchroot* is a script to create an Arch Linux chroot at a specified location with specified packages. Typically used by *makechrootpkg* to create build chroots. Apart from installing specified packages the chroot is created with an en\_US.UTF-8 and de\_DE.UTF-8 locale and a generated machine-id.

## OPTIONS

- **-U**

  Use *pacman -U* to install packages.

- **-C** \<file\>

  Location of a pacman config file.

- **-M** \<file\>

  Location of a makepkg config file.

- **-c** \<dir\>

  Set pacman cache.

- **-f** \<src\>\[:\<dst\>\]

  Copy file from the host to the chroot. If *dst* is not provided, it defaults to *src* inside of the chroot.

- **-s**

  Do not run setarch.

- **-h**

  Output command line options.

## SEE ALSO

pacman(1)

## HOMEPAGE

 *\<https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools\>*

*Please report bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker. Please do your best to provide a reproducible test case for bugs.*