VAR-SOM-AM33 Development Environment: Difference between revisions
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= Installing Ubuntu 14.04 in VMWare Player = | = Installing Ubuntu 14.04 in VMWare Player = | ||
There are many | There are many tutorials on the web. For example: | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv6V6ESOyUk VMware Player | How to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ] | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv6V6ESOyUk VMware Player | How to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ] | ||
== Installation recommendations == | == Installation recommendations == | ||
* Set the number of CPU's to maximum possible | * Set the number of CPU's to maximum possible | ||
Revision as of 08:06, 23 August 2017
VAR-SOM-AMX3 - Setting Development Environment
Introduction
Installing Ubuntu 14.04 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
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
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:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash