# Manjaro ARM Installer

Fork of [upstream](https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/applications/manjaro-arm-installer) with `--output-image` mode added — builds to a sparse `.img` file via loop device instead of writing to a real block device. With no flags, behaves identically to upstream.

## Usage

```bash
# build to an image file (12 GB)
sudo ./manjaro-arm-installer --output-image ./manjaro.img --image-size 12G

# env-var form (drop-in for scripts)
sudo IMG_OUTPUT=manjaro.img IMG_SIZE=12G ./manjaro-arm-installer

# compress after build (xz preferred, zstd fallback)
sudo ./manjaro-arm-installer --output-image ./manjaro.img --compress
```

Default image size is `8G` if `--image-size` isn't passed.

The interactive dialogs (edition, user, password, locale, etc.) run as normal.

## Dependencies

Same as upstream: `bash wget git systemd dialog parted libarchive openssl gawk dosfstools polkit`. Plus `binfmt-qemu-static` if running on x86_64 (reboot or `sudo systemctl restart systemd-binfmt` after install). `xz` or `zstd` only if using `--compress`.

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