Linaro Releases

There are two methods to install linaro builds:

1. using pre-built image
2. creating your own image with linaro image tools

Using pre-built image

Insert SD card and note the assigned ‘/dev/sdX’ or ‘/dev/mmcblk0’

dmesg

Download the image and flash the SD card

SDCARD=/dev/sdX # sdcard found from dmesg above
URL=http://releases.linaro.org/12.11/ubuntu/boards/panda/lt-panda-x11-base-precise_ubuntu-desktop_20121125-456.img.gz
curl $URL | gunzip | sudo dd bs=64k of=$SDCARD

Note: Windows users may use the Image Writer for Windows.

Creating your own image

Get artifacts

wget http://releases.linaro.org/12.11/ubuntu/boards/panda/hwpack_linaro-lt-panda-x11-base_20121125-456_armhf_supported.tar.gz
wget http://releases.linaro.org/12.11/ubuntu/boards/panda/linaro-precise-ubuntu-desktop-20121124-560.tar.gz

Get linaro image tools

• method 1: using binary package for Ubuntu (PPA)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linaro-maintainers/tools
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linaro-image-tools

• method 2: using source code

wget http://releases.linaro.org/12.11/components/platform/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools-2012.11.tar.gz

Insert SD card and note the assigned ‘/dev/sdX’ or ‘/dev/mmcblk0’

dmesg

Create media

sudo linaro-media-create --mmc /dev/sdX --dev panda --hwpack hwpack_linaro-lt-panda-x11-base_20121125-456_armhf_supported.tar.gz --binary linaro-precise-ubuntu-desktop-20121124-560.tar.gz

Links

For more information on how to use this builds please see the Linaro wiki here.