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<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
<a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a><br>

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<h2>NAME
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">prokit-install
- Install a system into a directory</p>

<h2>SYNOPSIS
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>prokit
install</b> [<b>-a</b> <i>arch</i>] [<b>-p</b> <i>plat</i>]
[<b>-m</b> <i>mirror</i>] [<b>-F</b>] <i>suite root</i></p>

<h2>DESCRIPTION
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i><b>prokit
install</b></i> installs a basic system of <i>suite</i> into
<i>root</i>.</p>

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If <i>root</i>
is a block device node, the block device is mounted and a
system is installed into its file system.</p>

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>suite</i>
can be a distribution like <i>trunk</i>; a channel and
distribution like <i>dev/trunk</i>; a profile and
distribution like <i>proteanos:trunk</i>; or a profile,
channel, and distribution like
<i>proteanos:dev/trunk</i>.</p>

<h2>OPTIONS
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>-a&nbsp;</b><i>arch</i></p>

<p style="margin-left:22%;">Install packages built for the
<i>arch</i> architecture instead of automatically detecting
the architecture of the running system.</p>

<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-p&nbsp;</b><i>plat</i></p>

<p style="margin-left:22%;">Install packages built for the
<i>plat</i> platform instead of automatically choosing a
default platform.</p>


<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-m&nbsp;</b><i>mirror</i></p>

<p style="margin-left:22%;">Download packages from
<i>mirror</i> instead of automatically selecting one at
random. <i>mirror</i> is a base URL like
<i>http://us.mirror.gnu.dk/pub/proteanos</i>.</p>

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<p><b>-F</b></p></td>
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<p>Unpack but do not configure packages. Instead, arrange
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<h2>COPYRIGHT
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<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Copyright (C)
2014 Patrick McDermott</p>

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The ProteanOS
Development Kit is free software: you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either
version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.</p>

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The ProteanOS
Development Kit is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.</p>

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">You should have
received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
the ProteanOS Development Kit. If not, see
&lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt;.</p>