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Host Setup

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

• Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS or above
• Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-173-generic or above
• Architecture: x86_64

Note: You should also have about 50 Gbytes of free disk space for building images.

Ubuntu and Debian

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

Repo setup

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.

Host setup

Build Setup

All RPi based RDK images with latest features are from rdk-next branch

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