How to install Yocto Project (Ubuntu)

Install essential environment

$ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib build-essential chrpath socat cpio python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 libegl1-mesa libsdl1.2-dev pylint3 xterm

Download Poky through git

$ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky

Move Poky folder

$ cd poky

Show git tag

$ git tag

Get all required commit

$ git fetch --tags

Checkout your tag

$ git checkout tags/yocto-3.1 -b my-yocto-3.1

Set to build environment

$ source oe-init-build-env

Modify build/conf/local.conf

Set to fit your PC cpu core count (If you don't set this up, it will operate at 1 core and the build will take a very long time…)

BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4"

PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4"

SSTATE_MIRRORS = "\

     file://.* http://sstate.yoctoproject.org/dev/PATH;downloadfilename=PATH \n \

     file://.* http://sstate.yoctoproject.org/3.0.2/PATH;downloadfilename=PATH \n \

     file://.* http://sstate.yoctoproject.org/3.1/PATH;downloadfilename=PATH \n \

     "

Bitbake

$ bitbake core-image-sato

Run

$ runqemu qemux86-64

Ref. https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/3.1/brief-yoctoprojectqs/brief-yoctoprojectqs.html

This is a summary of yoctoproject.org, and Yoctoproject is the best data related to Yocto.

#Yocto #install Yocto #YoctoProject #Linux #Build environment #Ubuntu