3DS-Linux - User Guide
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Installing / updating packages
Since the internal WiFi is not supported at the moment, all package installs must be done externally.

1. Power off your 3DS and insert the SD card into a linux PC
2. On your PC, install qemu-user and qemu-user-binfmt
  - Arch Linux : sudo pacman -S qemu-user qemu-user-binfmt
  - Debian : sudo apt install qemu-user qemu-user-binfmt
  - Void Linux : sudo xbps-install qemu-user binfmt-support
3. Mount the rootfs
  - sudo mount /dev/[rootfs block device here] /mnt
4. Chroot into the rootfs
  - for d in proc sys dev dev/pts run; do mount --bind /$d /mnt/$d; done && chroot /mnt /bin/bash
  You should now be in the void-linux install.
5. Install/upgrade as you would on Void-Linux with xbps
6. Exit the chroot
  - exit
7. Unmount and clean up
  - sync && for d in dev/pts dev sys proc run; do umount /mnt/$d; done
8. Place the SD card back into your 3DS


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