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The OpenEmbedded build system should be able to run on any modern distribution with the following versions for Git, tar, and Python.
Git 1.8.3.1 or greater.
tar 1.24 or greater.
Python 2.7.3 or greater excluding Python 3.x, which is not supported
Below is the host environment details
Note: You should also have about 50 Gbytes of free disk space for building images.
The essential packages you need for a supported Ubuntu or Debian distribution are shown in the following command
$ sudo apt-get install make gcc g++ diffstat texinfo chrpath gcc-multilib git gawk build-essential autoconf libtool libncurses-dev gettext gperf lib32z1 libc6-i386 g++-multilib python-git
In order to use Yocto build system, the repo tool must be properly installed on the machine. Make sure you have a /bin directory in your home directory and that it is included in your path
$ mkdir ~/bin
$ PATH=~/bin:$PATH
Download the repo tool and ensure that it is executable
$ curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
Note: it is also recommended to put credentials in .netrc when interacting with repo.
A sample .netrc file is illustrated below
machine code.rdkcentral.com
login YOUR_USERNAME
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Refer the below link for Host Setup details.
All RPi based RDK images with latest features are from rdk-next branch
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