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VAR-SOM-MX6 - Setting Development Environment

Introduction

Installing Ubuntu 14.04 in VMWare Player

There are many examples on the WEB. we Recommend:

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

First time you login into Ubuntu Install additional pacakages

Yocto essentials pacakages:
sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib build-essential chrpath socat libsdl1.2-dev xterm

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

Pre Built Ubuntu 14.04 VMWare virtual machine

We created a Virtual machine with all packages installed. We also installed Yocto Fido R2 on it. Please download it from the FTP site and add it to your VMWare.
Username: variscite
Password: variscite </br]You can skip to the section: Build Yocto release

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