VAR-SOM-AMX3 - Setting Development Environment¶
Introduction¶
Installing Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit in VMWare Player¶
There are many tutorials on the web. For example:
Installation recommendations¶
- Set the number of CPU's to maximum possible
- Set the memory size to at least 4GB.
- Set the disk size to be at least 200GB. 300GB is better.
- Use Bridge for networking.
- Install the VMWare tools.
- If you have an extra hard drive use it as a physical partition and set you home directory to it.
- Update Ubuntu right after first login.
Installing additional packages for Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit¶
First time you login into Ubuntu Install additional packages
Yocto essentials packages:
$ sudo apt-get install git build-essential diffstat texinfo gawk chrpath gcc-multilib wget socat libsdl1.2-dev mtd-utils dos2unix
Yocto Documentation:
$ sudo apt-get install make xsltproc docbook-utils fop dblatex xmlto
ADT Installer Extras:
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool libglib2.0-dev libarchive-dev
Additional :
$ sudo apt-get install bison flex patch libncurses-dev
$ sudo apt-get install gettext texinfo curl subversion
$ sudo apt-get install minicom wireshark
$ sudo apt-get install ssh vde2 nfs-kernel-server debootstrap uml-utilities
$ sudo apt-get install bridge-utils dnsmasq xinetd tftpd tftp
$ sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools
$ sudo apt-get install parted
Changing the default shell on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit¶
Ubuntu installs dash shell by default, but Yocto uses some bash-specific scripting features. Run the following command to change the default shell to bash and select No: