Build Dependencies Installation

In order to be able to build Replicant, you need to install some (free) software:

Required Packages

Additional requirements for 64 bit computers

Command line installation

Trisquel/Debian/Ubuntu

Required Packages:

apt-get install  bison flex git-core gperf libncurses-dev build-essential squashfs-tools openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jdk pngcrush wget zip zlib1g-dev lzma

Additional requirements for 64 bit computers:

apt-get install libc6-dev-i386 gcc-multilib g++-multilib lib32z1-dev lib32readline5-dev lib32ncurses5-dev 

On Debian sid, multi-arch i386 has to be enabled and the following is also required:

apt-get install zlib1g-dev:i386

Parabola/Arch

Enable the pcr repository(for openjdk6-old) by adding the following to /etc/pacman.conf:

[pcr]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Then update all packages::

pacman -Syu

Then install the required Packages:

pacman -S core/bison core/flex extra/gperftools core/ncurses community/squashfs-tools pcr/openjdk6-old extra/wget extra/zip core/zlib core/xz libre/pngcrush extra/gperf extra/bc

64bit installations require more packages because some uttilities(like adb) are built for 32bit computers.

Add the following repository in /etc/pacman.conf:

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Then install the missing dependencies for 64bit:
pacman -S multilib/lib32-glibc multilib/gcc-multilib multilib/lib32-readline multilib/lib32-ncurses multilib/lib32-zlib