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• The OpenEmbedded build system should be able to run on Ubuntu 20.0 distribution/other compatible linux distribution with the following versions for Git, tar, and Python.

  • Git 2.25.1 or greater
  • tar 1.30 or greater
  • Python 3.10.4 or greater
  • Coreutils(E.g realpath)

  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 gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib \   build-essential chrpath socat cpio python python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect \   xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 libegl1-mesa libsdl1.2-dev \   pylint3 xterm bmap-tools   $ sudo apt-get install git cmake autoconf texinfo openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jre \   m4 libtool libtool-bin curl pkg-config lib32z1 doxygen $ sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib

Configure Git

Upgrade your Git version to 1.8.x or higher

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Credential configuration

Note: it It is also recommended to put credentials in .netrc when interacting with the repo. (Here in login we need to give public user id which created to login login code.rdkcentral.com)

For Signup - https://wiki.rdkcentral.com/signup.action

A sample .netrc file is illustrated below

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