Trying to make a custom Arch-based Linux distro with larch

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Published on 2012-12-03T01:15:00Z Indexed on 2012/12/04 23:07 UTC
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I'm all set up with a spiffy Arch installation in a virtual machine, and now I want to turn it into a live ISO. When I heard about larch, I thought it would be the perfect tool to turn my existing installation into something I could distribute.

However, I can't get larch to install properly. I followed the installation instructions on the website, which said to download and run the larch-setup script. When I run it, though, it installs the larch profiles and libraries but doesn't install the executable programs.

Here's a screenshot of the errors I get when larch-setup tries to install the executables.

Screenshot of what happens when I run larch-setup

I'd greatly appreciate any clues to what is going wrong here, or suggestions for alternative ways to turn my customized Arch installation into an ISO! Thanks!

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