Yocto Development Environment
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Setting Development Environment
Introduction
Installing Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit in VMWare Player
There are many examples on the WEB. we Recommend:
Installation recommendations
- Set the number of CPUs 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
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