Create a Raspbian Chroot Environment Emulating ARM

raspbian-chroot.sh

#!/bin/bash

CHROOT_DIR=/tmp/raspbian-chroot
MIRROR=http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian
VERSION=jessie
CHROOT_ARCH=armhf

sudo apt-get install -y debootstrap qemu-user-static binfmt-support sbuild
sudo mkdir -p $CHROOT_DIR

sudo debootstrap --foreign --no-check-gpg --include=fakeroot,build-essential \
    --arch=${CHROOT_ARCH} ${VERSION} ${CHROOT_DIR} ${MIRROR}
sudo cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static ${CHROOT_DIR}/usr/bin/
sudo chroot ${CHROOT_DIR} ./debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
sudo sbuild-createchroot --arch=${CHROOT_ARCH} --foreign --setup-only \
    ${VERSION} ${CHROOT_DIR} ${MIRROR}

# Now you can chroot into Raspbian:
# sudo chroot /tmp/raspbian-chroot bash

# root@server:/# cat /etc/*release*
# PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"
# NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"

# root@server:/# uname -m
# armv7l

Stolen from https://www.tomaz.me/2013/12/02/running-travis-ci-tests-on-arm.html