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systemd on openSUSE 11.3

posted 22 Jul 2010

WARNING: this could cause your machine to stop booting, experienced Linux admins only. :)

Systemd is a new init system being written by Lennart, Kay and many others. If you want to give it a try on openSUSE 11.3 or openSUSE Factory follow these steps to get it all installed.

  • su
  • # Add the Factory repo for dbus upgrade
  • zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ Factory
  • zypper mr -p 100 Factory
  • # Add Kay's repo for systemd install
  • zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kay_sievers/openSUSE_Factory_standard/home:kay_sievers.repo
  • zypper mr -n systemd home_kay_sievers
  • zypper mr -p 100 systemd
  • # Install new dbus and then systemd
  • zypper install -r Factory dbus-1
  • zypper install -r home_kay_sievers udev vala systemd

At this point systemd is installed in parallel with systemvinit. To actually use systemd as your init reboot your machine and append the following to your kernel command line arguments at the grub menu:

init=/bin/systemd

That it! If things break try some of the Documentation.

If you want to expand this article visit the wiki page

topics: systemd, opensuse, break

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ifup.org is the weblog of Brandon Philips and contains excerpts from my code, work and play.

I write Linux software and work on the systems layer of Linux. In the last two years I have helped to organize Linux Plumbers Conf and Freedom HEC Taipei. It has been rewarding to bring together these communities to discuss current Linux issues.

Robotics is another passion and I had the opportunity to mentor a FIRST Robotics team in Portland recently too. I also continue to work with my friend Ron Jackson to build some neat USB devices for robotics.