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IMX233-OLinuXino-MINI user's manual
2.6 Building the Linux image
Note that building the Linux image from scratch is a time-consuming task. Even with powerful
machine and fast internet connection it might take few hours compiling. Some Linux distributions
might lack the tools required to compile/build/execute scripts/download from repository – how to
get those is not discussed below.
The Linux image is created and downloaded from
https://github.com/Freescale/fsl-community-bsp-
platform
. For the test here we used Debian 6.0 with GNOME visual libraries. The steps we did:
1) From the terminal created folder “bin” in home folder:
user@dist$:
mkdir bin
user@dist$:
cd bin
Add bin directory to PATH in order to do the next steps easier. Else navigate to the right folders.
2) Installed `repo` utility needed for the bitbake file fetching from the repository:
user@dist$:
curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo > ~/bin/repo
user@dist$:
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
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