Getting started with RTEMS and Ubuntu

[Mohammed Khoory]

Hi, I'm a newbie who encountered this problem as well a few weeks ago. 

> There seem to be files located at
> http://www.rtems.org/ftp/pub/rtems/linux/4.11/ubuntu/dists/quantal/
> that might work for installing tools for my new Quantal x86_64 development
> machine.

The packages on that list don't install, because certain essential packages
are missing from that list (the "common" packages), so don't bother

> There is also the wiki page at
> http://www.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/Debian_and_Ubuntu that gives the
> instructions for using RedHat RPM's and the alien package to create .DEB
> packages from the .RPM packages.

That's what  I did. I used the latest fedora's packages, because they seem
to be uploaded very recently and I wanted something up to date. After using
alien on them and installing them as the guide says, it's been working fine
without any issues at all and I was able to build RTEMS with it. So I'd go
for that.


> Which is the currently recommended path to follow?  I need to run Ubuntu
> because of the requirements of a different project so I have a little bit
of a
> sys-admin learning curve to deal with.
> 
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> Steven Grunza
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