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Host Setup

The OpenEmbedded build system should be able to run on any modern distribution with the following versions for tar, and Python.

• tar 1.24 or greater.

• Python 2.7.3 or greater excluding Python 3.x, which is not supported.

Pre-Requisites

Install the following packages for setting up your host VM

The instructions provided below are meant to be executed via the command line on an Ubuntu machine:

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Note : Please note openjdk-7-jre package is not available for Ubuntu-16.04 anymore. Presumably openjdk-8-jre should be used instead.

Configure bash as default command interpreter for shell scripts

sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

Select “No”
To choose bash, when the prompt asks if you want to use dash as the default system shell - select “No”

Configure Git

Upgrade your Git version to 1.8.x or higher

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$  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Repo setup

             In order to install Repo make sure you have a /bin directory in your home directory and that it is included in your path

Repo Setup Steps

$ 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

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machine code.rdkcentral.com
login YOUR_USERNAME
password YOUR_PASSWORD

Yocto Build Steps

To build, follow below instructions

Build Steps

$ mkdir <workspace dir>
$ cd <workspace dir>
$ repo init -u https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/manifests -b rdk-next -m rdkb-extsrc.xml
$ repo sync -j4 --no-clone-bundle
$ source meta-cmf-raspberrypi/setup-environment (Select option raspberrypi-rdk-broadband.conf)
$ bitbake rdk-generic-broadband-image

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-             ~/tmp/deploy/images/raspberrypi-rdk-broadband folder

Flashing Procedure

Following command can be used to flash the RPI image to sd card using linux machine . dd tool should be available in linux

sudo dd if=<path to ImageName.rpi-sdimg> of=<path to SD card space> bs=4M
Example:
$ sudo dd if=rdk-generic-broadband-image-raspberrypi-rdk-broadband.rpi-sdimg of=/dev/sdb bs=4M

https://www.balena.io/etcher/ can be used to flash RPI image in sd card using windows