The Replicant source code is currently hosted by the FSF at: git.replicant.us
There is one branch per Replicant version, such as replicant-2.2.
Before downloading the Replicant source code, make sure there is a considerable amount of disk space left on the drive you intent to build Replicant on.
It is advised to have 40-50GiB available for the Replicant source code and the produced files.
The path to the source tree root folder must not contain spaces.
To be able download the complete source code, the repo tool needs to be installed. The distribution you are using may already have the tool packaged and it may already been installed as part of the Build dependencies installation.
If the repo tool is not available on your system, you can download and install it locally:
mkdir tools cd tools wget https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo chmod a+x repo cd ../
In the following, the local installation in ../tools/repo is assumed. If you have installed repo from your system's package manager, replace
../tools/repo
with just
repo
at the beginning of the following commands.
The source manifest is the list of all the git repositories that are present in the Replicant tree.
Each Replicant version has a dedicated branch with the proper source manifest.
In case errors such as server certificate verification failed happen, installing the CACert certificate may help:
mkdir /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/cacert.org wget -P /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/cacert.org http://www.cacert.org/certs/root.crt http://www.cacert.org/certs/class3.crt update-ca-certificates
mkdir replicant-6.0-dev cd replicant-6.0-dev ../tools/repo init -u https://git.replicant.us/replicant/manifest.git -b replicant-6.0-dev
mkdir replicant-4.2 cd replicant-4.2 ../tools/repo init -u https://git.replicant.us/replicant/manifest.git -b replicant-4.2
mkdir replicant-4.0 cd replicant-4.0 ../tools/repo init -u https://git.replicant.us/replicant/manifest.git -b replicant-4.0
mkdir replicant-2.3 cd replicant-2.3 ../tools/repo init -u https://git.replicant.us/replicant/manifest.git -b replicant-2.3
mkdir replicant-2.2 cd replicant-2.2 ../tools/repo init -u https://git.replicant.us/replicant/manifest.git -b replicant-2.2
Now that you have configured repo, you can start downloading Replicant sources for the desired version.
This step is very long and can take hours to complete!
../tools/repo sync
Once the source code is ready, you need to get the prebuilt applications (they are downloaded from F-Droid):
vendor/replicant/get-prebuilts
You must redo these steps each time you want to sync your tree, in order to keep it up to date. Future syncs are faster than the first one.