robovero-build-essentials

A meta-package to install the crosstool-NG required packages for doing Gumstix Robovero expansion board development from an Ubuntu Linux workstation.

There is an accompanying python script for checking the installed packages on your workstation without trying to do an install.

Last tested with Ubuntu 11.04

Checkout

Checkout the project from github like this

$ git clone git://github.com/scottellis/robovero-build-essentials-project.git

Usage

If you just want to check for missing packages, you can use the check-installed.py script.

Run it with no arguments. You should hopefully get a listing like this.

scott@laptop:~/projects/robovero-build-essentials-project$ ./check-installed.py 

Packages installed:

ii  gawk                1:3.1.7.dfsg-5               GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language
ii  bison               1:2.4.1.dfsg-3               A parser generator that is compatible with YACC
ii  flex                2.5.35-10ubuntu1             A fast lexical analyzer generator.
ii  automake            1:1.11.1-1ubuntu1            A tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
ii  libtool             2.2.6b-2ubuntu3              Generic library support script
ii  libncurses5-dev     5.7+20101128-1               developer's libraries for ncurses
ii  zlib1g-dev          1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu3      compression library - development
ii  libusb-dev          2:0.1.12-17                  userspace USB programming library development files
ii  unzip               6.0-4ubuntu1                 De-archiver for .zip files
ii  xutils-dev          1:7.6+1                      X Window System utility programs for development  

Packages missing:

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The meta-package robovero-build-essentials.deb can be used to install all or just the missing packages on your Ubuntu system.

If you did a git checkout of this project, the you could also customize the package first by editing the robovero-build-essentials/DEBIAN/control file and rebuilding the deb.

If you are customizing, after your edits, run the following command to rebuild

$ cd robovero-build-essentials-project
$ dpkg-deb -b robovero-build-essentials

To install the robovero-build-essentials.deb package, run the following:

$ sudo dpkg -i robovero-build-essentials.deb
$ sudo apt-get -f install

The apt-get call does the real installation and will give you a list of what's going to happen and a chance to abort before it does anything.

Package List

The list of packages come from the Gumstix recommendations on the Wiki - <a href="http://wiki.gumstix.org/index.php?title=RoboVero#Prerequisites> Robovero -Toolchain - Prerequisites

Here's the package list

gawk
bison
flex
automake
libtool
libncurses5-dev
zlib1g-dev
libusb-dev
unzip
xutils-dev (for makedepend)