== Installing Pacman ==
{{Note|You do not need to do this if you are already using a Arch/Chakra-based system.}}

Because we create a chroot to build a liveCD, any Linux distro from Gentoo to Debian can work on Cherimoya. All you need to do is to install the {{Codeline|pacman}} package manager to your host system.

=== Gentoo ===

Gentoo has a {{Codeline|pacman}} package ready to go. Just unmask and emerge it:

 # echo sys-apps/pacman >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
 # emerge -va sys-apps/pacman

Because Gentoo does not have libfetch, you will need to uncomment one of the two XferCommand lines in /etc/pacman.conf. I recommend using the wget line:

 XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u

=== Other distros ===

For other distros, such as Debian or Fedora, they either do not have a Pacman package, or it is too old. Not to worry though, '''just download [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22186524/files/getpac.sh this script]''', run it, and pacman will be installed.