We use <aclass="ext-link"title="http://debian.org"href="http://debian.org">Debian</a> as our development environment. This was a natural choice, as the CryptoBox-LiveCD is also based on Debian. Other distributions should work too, of course - <i>your mileage may vary</i>.
<ul><li><aclass="ext-link"title="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=apt-cacher"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=apt-cacher">apt-cacher</a>, <aclass="ext-link"title="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=apt-proxy"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=apt-proxy"> apt-proxy</a> or <aclass="ext-link"title="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=approx"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=0&version=all&release=all&keywords=approx">approx</a>
If you want to use <aclass="ext-link"title="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/"href="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/">qemu</a> to test your <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBox&weblang=en">CryptoBox</a> in a virtual environment, then you will need the <i>tun/tap</i> kernel feature.
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<preclass="wiki">CONFIG_TUN=m
</pre><h2id="Getthesource">Get the source</h2>
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Download the latest release from our <aclass="ext-link"title="http://subversion.tigris.org"href="http://subversion.tigris.org">subversion</a>-Repository:
run <tt>scripts/cbox-build.sh release</tt> as <i>root</i> - hopefully, there should be no errors :)
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Hint: This step will fail, if you did not install <i>apt-cacher</i>. See <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBoxDevCustomBuild&weblang=en">CryptoBoxDevCustomBuild</a> for details on how to change the build-configuration settings (in this case: <i>mirror</i> in <i>dfs-cbox.conf</i>).
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<h2id="Finished">Finished</h2>
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Now you can start to pariticipate in the development of the <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBox&weblang=en">CryptoBox</a> or simply customize your own CryptoBox-LiveCD.
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See <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBoxDevWorkFlow">CryptoBoxDevWorkFlow</a> for details of how to use the developer's tools of the <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBox&weblang=en">CryptoBox</a>.
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<ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBoxDevCustomBuild">CryptoBoxDevCustomBuild</a> shows some examples for local customizations of the <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBox&weblang=en">CryptoBox</a>.