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sbuild-shell - run a shell in an sbuild chroot

sbuild-shell [-h|--help | -V|--version] CHROOT

sbuild-shell runs an interactive shell (/bin/sh) inside the specified chroot. The changes will not be discarded, so this can be used to setup a build chroot.

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The chroot to use. Note that ‘o’, ‘s’, ‘t’, ‘u’ and ‘e’ may be used as abbreviations for ‘oldstable’, ‘stable’, ‘testing’, ‘unstable’ and ‘experimental’, respectively.

To run a shell in the unstable chroot:

% sbuild-shell unstable

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04 January 2023 Version 0.85.0