LoongArch

The LoongArch architecture is a RISC-style ISA developed by Loongson
LoongArch64 is the 64-bit version of LoongArch

Operating Systems

OS/Arch	Arch	Architecture
`linux/loong64`	`loong64`	`loongarch64`

Alpine Linux
Debian GNU/Linux

Name	Description
alpine-standard-3.24.1-loongarch64.iso	Alpine as it was intended. Just enough to get you started.
debian-testing-loong64-netinst.iso	Contains installer images for the non-release "ports" architectures.

You can use Docker for quick deployment.

# Set up QEMU
docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt --install all
# Alpine
docker run --rm --platform linux/loong64 -it ghcr.io/loong64/alpine:3.24 sh
# Debian
docker run --rm --platform linux/loong64 -it ghcr.io/loong64/debian:trixie-slim bash

Debian Packages

Install Debian packages from the repository.

# Add the GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl

# sudo curl -fsSL "https://mirrors.loong64.com/debian-loong64-archive-keyring.gpg" -o /usr/share/keyrings/debian-loong64-archive-keyring.gpg
sudo curl -fsSL "https://loong64.github.io/repo/debian/debian-loong64-archive-keyring.gpg" -o /usr/share/keyrings/debian-loong64-archive-keyring.gpg
sudo chmod a+r /usr/share/keyrings/debian-loong64-archive-keyring.gpg

# Add the repository:
echo \
  "deb [arch=loong64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-loong64-archive-keyring.gpg] https://loong64.github.io/repo/debian trixie main" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-loong64-repo.list > /dev/null

# Install packages:
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

Package list ...

Package Name	Install Command	Description
gh	`sudo apt install gh`	GitHub's official command line tool
containerd.io	`sudo apt install containerd.io`	An open and reliable container runtime
docker-buildx-plugin	`sudo apt install docker-buildx-plugin`	Docker Buildx CLI plugin
docker-ce	`sudo apt install docker-ce`	Docker Engine
docker-ce-cli	`sudo apt install docker-ce-cli`	Docker CLI
docker-ce-rootless-extras	`sudo apt install docker-ce-rootless-extras`	Rootless support for Docker
docker-compose-plugin	`sudo apt install docker-compose-plugin`	Docker Compose (V2) plugin for the Docker CLI

More packages will be added ...

Docker

Name	Release	Description
Docker		Packaging scripts for Docker CE.
Containerd		Linux distribution packaging for containerd.
Buildx		Docker CLI plugin for extended build capabilities with BuildKit.
Compose		Define and run multi-container applications with Docker.
Plugins		Reference and example networking plugins maintained by the CNI team.
Binfmt		Cross-platform emulator collection distributed with Docker images.
xx		Dockerfile cross-compilation helpers.

Docker Images

GitHub Container Registry. Images are built on docker-library.

docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/loong64/golang:1.26-trixie go version
docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/loong64/node:24-trixie-slim node --version
docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/loong64/python:3.14-slim-trixie python --version

"Distroless" Container Images. Images are built on distroless.

Image	Tags	Architecture Suffixes
ghcr.io/loong64/distroless/static-debian13	`latest`, `nonroot`, `debug`, `debug-nonroot`	amd64, arm64, arm, s390x, ppc64le, riscv64, loong64
ghcr.io/loong64/distroless/base-debian13	`latest`, `nonroot`, `debug`, `debug-nonroot`	amd64, arm64, arm, s390x, ppc64le, riscv64, loong64
ghcr.io/loong64/distroless/base-nossl-debian13	`latest`, `nonroot`, `debug`, `debug-nonroot`	amd64, arm64, arm, s390x, ppc64le, riscv64, loong64
ghcr.io/loong64/distroless/cc-debian13	`latest`, `nonroot`, `debug`, `debug-nonroot`	amd64, arm64, arm, s390x, ppc64le, riscv64, loong64
ghcr.io/loong64/distroless/nodejs22-debian13	`latest`, `nonroot`, `debug`, `debug-nonroot`	amd64, arm64, arm, s390x, ppc64le, loong64
ghcr.io/loong64/distroless/nodejs24-debian13	`latest`, `nonroot`, `debug`, `debug-nonroot`	amd64, arm64, s390x, ppc64le, loong64
ghcr.io/loong64/distroless/nodejs26-debian13	`latest`, `nonroot`, `debug`, `debug-nonroot`	amd64, arm64, s390x, ppc64le, loong64
ghcr.io/loong64/distroless/python3-debian13	`latest`, `nonroot`, `debug`, `debug-nonroot`	amd64, arm64, riscv64, loong64, loong64

More Docker images will be added ...

Compiler Tools

Name	Release	Description
gcc-cross-tools		LoongArch64 cross-compile toolchain, supports both x86_64(amd64) and aarch64(arm64) architectures.
gcc-cross-tools-musl		Simple makefile-based build for musl cross compiler.
clang-toolchain-tools		Projects related to packaging and language toolchain support.
Ccache		A compiler cache.
CMake		A cross-platform, open-source build-system generator.
GN		A standalone version of Chromium's GN.
Ninja		A small build system focused on speed.

Dart

Name	Release	Description
dart		The Dart SDK.
dart-musl		The Dart SDK (musl).
dart-sass		The reference implementation of Sass, written in Dart.

Python

Name	Release	Description
uv		An extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust.
python-build-standalone		Produce redistributable Python builds.

wget -O - https://github.com/loong64/uv/releases/latest/download/uv-loongarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1 -C /usr/local/bin
uv --version

cd ~/project

export UV_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://mirrors.loong64.com/pypi/simple
# uv venv --python <version> <path>
uv venv --python 3.11 .venv
uv run python --version

# uv pip install "SomePackage"
uv pip install django

PyPI Repository

Name	Release	Description
PyTorch		Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration.
TensorFlow		An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone.
ONNX Runtime		ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator.

Python Package Index. PyPI

export PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://mirrors.loong64.com/pypi/simple
pip install -U pip

# pip install "SomePackage"
pip install uv

More packages will be added ...

Node.js

Name	Release	Description
Node.js		Node.js JavaScript runtime.
isolated-vm		Secure & isolated JS environments for nodejs.
node-sqlite3		SQLite3 bindings for Node.js.
Tailwind CSS		A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development..
Lightning CSS		An extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier written in Rust..
Tauri		Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.
Next.js		The React Framework.
Vite+		Vite+ is the unified toolchain and entry point for web development.

Applications

Name	Release	Description
gosu		Simple Go-based setuid, setgid, setgroups, and exec tool.
ossutil		A user-friendly command-line tool for accessing Alibaba Cloud OSS.
llama.cpp		LLM inference in C/C++.
Ollama		Get up and running with large language models.
Godot		A multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine.
Box64		A Linux userspace x86_64 emulator.
Cosign		Code signing and transparency for containers and binaries.
GitHub CLI		GitHub's official command-line tool.
GitHub Actions Runner		The runner for GitHub Actions.
AppImageTool		A low-level tool for generating an AppImage from an existing AppDir.
Nydus		Dragonfly image service.
DuckDB		DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system.