Overview -------- http://ostree.gnome.org is the sole build/deploy server right now. Notably http://ostree.gnome.org/repo is an OSTree repo which holds binaries. To install, right now you need to build the 'ostree' git module somehow. I personally use jhbuild, but you could make an RPM/.deb or whatever too. Replace ~/src with whereever you keep source code. $ cd ~/src $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/ostree $ cd ostree $ jhbuild buildone -nf $(basename $(pwd)) Now we need to run the install script as root. $ su - # ~/src/ostree/gnomeos/yocto/gnomeos-install.sh Now you may need to edit your GRUB configuration. This part varies for GRUB 1 versus GRUB 2. The GRUB 2 bits in "15_ostree" don't really work yet. I'm just manually writing GRUB 1 entries. Running ------- Once you have a GRUB entry set up, just reboot. Log in as root, there's no password. One of the first things you'll need to do is add a user. The userid must match the one from your "host" distribution, since we share /home. For example, let's say my login "walters" has uid/gid 500. You should run: $ groupadd -g 500 walters $ useradd -u 500 -g 500 walters $ passwd walters Finally, you can start gdm: $ /usr/sbin/gdm