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authorYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2025-01-23 01:00:39 +0100
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@@ -46,11 +46,10 @@ and allows building and booting an OS image with the latest systemd installed
for testing purposes.
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. 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`.
+[GitHub repository](https://github.com/systemd/mkosi#running-mkosi-from-the-repository)
+or via your distribution's package manager. Note that systemd regularly adopts
+newer mkosi features that are not in an official release yet so there's a good
+chance that your distribution's packaged version of mkosi will be too old.
Then, you can build and run systemd executables as follows: