<p>We use <aclass="external"href="http://debian.org">Debian</a> as our development environment. This was a natural choice, as the <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBox">CryptoBox</a>-LiveCD is also based on Debian. Other distributions should work too, of course - <aclass="interwiki"title="Acronym"href="http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=YMMV">YMMV</a>. </p>
<li><p><aclass="interwiki"title="DebianPackage"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all&keywords=apt-cacher">apt-cacher</a>, <aclass="interwiki"title="DebianPackage"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all&keywords=apt-proxy">apt-proxy</a> or <aclass="interwiki"title="DebianPackage"href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all&keywords=approx">approx</a></p>
<p>If you want to use <aclass="external"href="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/">qemu</a> to test your <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBox">CryptoBox</a> in a virtual environment, then you will need the <em>tun/tap</em> kernel feature.
<p>run <tt>scripts/cbox-build.sh release</tt> as <em>root</em> - hopefully, there should be no errors <imgsrc="/cryptobox-img/smile.png"alt=":)"height="15"width="15"></p>
<p>Hint: This step will fail, if you did not install <em>apt-cacher</em>. See <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBoxDevCustomBuild">CryptoBoxDevCustomBuild</a> for details on how to change the build-configuration settings (in this case: <em>mirror</em> in <em>dfs-cbox.conf</em>). </p>
<p>Now you can start to pariticipate in the development of the <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBox">CryptoBox</a> or simply customize your own <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBox">CryptoBox</a>-LiveCD. </p>
<p>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">CryptoBox</a>. </p>
<p><ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBoxDevCustomBuild">CryptoBoxDevCustomBuild</a> shows some examples for local customizations of the <ahref="/cryptobox?action=doc&page=CryptoBox">CryptoBox</a>. </p>