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authorDaan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>2024-12-23 21:30:32 +0100
committerYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2024-12-25 05:54:11 +0100
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docs: Explicitly mention ~/.local/bin in section on installing mkosi
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First, install `mkosi` from the
[GitHub repository](https://github.com/systemd/mkosi#running-mkosi-from-the-repository).
Note that it's not possible to use your distribution's packaged version of mkosi
-as mkosi has to be installed outside of `/usr` for the following steps to work.
+as mkosi has to be installed outside of `/usr` for the following steps to work. When
+installing mkosi from the github repository, make sure to symlink it to `~/.local/bin`
+instead of `/usr/local/bin` if you want to add it to your `$PATH`.
Then, you can build and run systemd executables as follows: