Building the ISO

Perform the following steps to install the packages on Ubuntu:

1. Install the packages:

   sudo apt-get -y install bison gawk g++ createrepo python-aptdaemon genisoimage texinfo python-requests libfuse-dev libssl-dev uuid-dev libreadline-dev kpartx git bc
   

2. Get Docker:

   wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh
   

3. Install pip and docker 2.3.0

   sudo apt install python3-pip
   pip3 install docker==2.3.0
   

   If you encounter an error for LOCALE when you run these commands, then export the following variables in the terminal:

   export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
   export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
   

4. The default configuration parameters are available in config.json. If you want to customize them, then the configuration information is available at the following location:

   [https://github.com/vmware/photon/blob/dev/photon-build-config.txt](https://github.com/vmware/photon/blob/dev/photon-build-config.txt)
   

5. Clone`the Photon project:

   git clone https://github.com/vmware/photon.git cd $HOME/workspaces/photon

6. Make ISO as follows:

   sudo make iso

7. Make Minimal ISO as follows:

   sudo make minimal-iso

8. Make Real-Time ISO as follows:

   sudo make rt-iso

Result

This command first builds all RPMs corresponding to the SPEC files in your Photon repository and then builds a bootable ISO containing those RPMs.

The RPMs thus built are stored under stage/RPMS/ directory within the repository, using the following directory hierarchy:

$HOME/workspaces/photon/stage/:
├──RPMS/:
    ├──noarch/*.noarch.rpm    [Architecture-independent RPMs]
    ├──x86_64/*.x86_64.rpm    [RPMs built for the x86-64 architecture]
    ├──aarch64/*.aarch64.rpm  [RPMs built for the aarch64 (ARM64) architecture]

The ISO is created at $HOME/workspaces/photon/stage/photon.iso.