---
name: "system-images"
section: "7"
platform: "linux"
package: "open-infrastructure-system-images"
version: "20190301-lts1-3"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/system-images"
---

# system-images(7)

Debian based live and installer images

## NAME

system-images - Debian based live and installer images

## DESCRIPTION

"In computing, configuration files, or config files configure the initial settings for some computer programs."

```
-- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_file)
```

system-images contains configuration trees of some Debian based live and installer images.

## DOWNLOAD

• Upstream Releases: https://files.open-infrastructure.net/software/system-images/upstream

• Upstream Sources: https://sources.open-infrastructure.net/software/system-images

• Debian Releases: https://files.open-infrastructure.net/software/system-images/debian

• Debian Sources: https://sources.progress-linux.org/users/daniel/debian/packages/open-infrastructure-system-images

## INSTALLATION

### SOURCE

 1\. sudo apt install asciidoc git docbook-xml docbook-xsl libxml2-utils make xsltproc imagemagick librsvg2-bin

 2\. git clone https://sources.open-infrastructure.net/software/system-images

 3\. cd system-images && sudo make install

### DEBIAN 9 (STRETCH) AND NEWER

• sudo apt install system-images

## DEVELOPMENT

Bug reports, feature requests, help, patches, support and everything else are welcome on the Open Infrastructure Software Mailing List:

• https://lists.open-infrastructure.net/listinfo/software

Please base patches against the *next* Git branch using common sense:

• https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

Debian specific bugs can also be reported in the Debian Bug Tracking System:

• https://bugs.debian.org

## USAGE

The following configuration trees are available:

• base-system: a Debian based, minmal system, see https://debian.org

• container-server: a Container Server system using container-tools, see https://open-infrastructure.net/software/container-tools

• gnome-desktop: a GNOME Desktop system using GNOME, see https://gnome.org

A software called system-build can be used to automatically build images from this configuration tree.

system-build can be obtained from https://open-infrastructure.net/software/system-build.

On Debian based systems, system-build can be installed with:

```
# apt-get install system-build
```

system-build can be used to build this image with the following command executed in this directory::

```
# lb build
```

## AUTHORS

• Daniel Baumann \<daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net\>