In this example, I'm going to create one for Arch, Ubuntu, and and older version of Debian. The names of the distroboxes will be "arch", "ubuntu", and "deb9" but you can choose what you want.
**At the end of this step, do not exit the shell or reboot. We will continue using this shell in the following steps!**
### Install packages
Install the packages that you want to use on the base system that are not already present. I will using the the following.
Refresh the package cache:
```shell
zypper ref
```
Install the packages. Choose the ones that you want. You don't have to use the same ones as me.
```shell
zypper in mc mlocate micro-editor tilix
```
Exit the shell
```
exit
```
You should see something like this at the end:
```
Please reboot your machine to activate the changes and avoid data loss.
New default snapshot is #2 (/.snapshots/2/snapshot).
transactional-update finished
```
Reboot your machine.
## Set up a simple xterm login option
The GDM login display manager reads the .desktop files from /usr/share/xsessions in order to know how to start the display manager such a Gnome, KDE, Mate, etc. We can create a very simple desktop file that will only start xterm which will be very useful for troubleshooting.
Copy `xterm.desktop` to /opt/share/xsessions (which we have linked to /usr/share/xsessions). Then logout and when you log back in, you will see an xterm option. If you log in, you will get a single terminal screen. If you exit the terminal, it will log you out.