Making a chroot ARM64 Environment on AMD64

Using trixie (testing, debian 13.1) as ARM64 development environment on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS.

On the host

sudo apt-get install qemu-utils qemu-efi-aarch64 qemu-system-arm chrootuid \
     qemu-user-static binfmt-support debootstrap debian-archive-keyring

sudo -sH

Download the ARM64 image.

qemu-debootstrap --arch=arm64 --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg \
--variant=buildd --exclude=debfoster trixie debian-arm64 http://ftp.debian.org/debian

chroot debian-arm64/

On the guest

apt install build-essential cmake dh-make locales nano dialog

Fix locales.

nano /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
dpkg-reconfigure locales

Should choose C.UTF-8 as default.

Samiux
September 19, 2025, Hong Kong, China