I just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 and had to set my spark environment back up from scratch. I thought I’d document the process and share it with anyone else attempting to get it running. Spark toolchain setup for Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) Make sure you don’t have the wrong node package installed (node is…

Hey I’m a Linux beginner and I just wanted add something I had trouble with in the hopes that I can spare someone a headache. I was having trouble adding arm-none-eabi-gcc to my$PATH variable. Turns out I needed to add the following line to my ~/.bash_rc instead of ~/.bash_profile as instructed abov…

Note that dfu-util is moving. I got a clone from: git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/dfu-util/dfu-util dfu-util

Thank you for documenting this! I got stuck at cloning the spark git repos until I cloned them using https like this (yup, took this from the spark github ): git clone https://github.com/spark/core-communication-lib.git git clone https://github.com/spark/core-firmware.git git clone https://gi…

[image] elecnix: Note that dfu-util is moving. I got a clone from: git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/dfu-util/dfu-util dfu-util I think we need a new place to find this source, this is asking for a username and password This whole thing is already quite the bundle of steps never mind signin…

I ended up just downloading the dfu-utls zip from sorceforge, and compiling from that. Unfortunately all in vain, flashed the latest build of the firmware, but no dice on my network, I have no router access where I’m at right now, only wireless AP access, port or protocol the spark is using is pr…

[image] liyang: Also, instead of cloning dfu-utils and building it from source, I was able to install version 0.8 (effectively as recent as you're going to get from the git repository) by selecting the most recent build for my architecture, downloading the .deb at the bottom of the page and: $ …

Now that Spark is now Particle, how do the instructions above change ? Is there a way to just run everything, instead of typing every line in one-at-a-time ? I am a noob and I find all this typing confusing.

Looks like the most recent one for ubuntu 14.04 is obtained via: sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi=4.9.3.2015q3-1trusty1

There’s a script, though it’s still a work in progress that will do the full set up of dependencies on Mac and Linux (debian/ubuntu based): http://po-util.com/ It will pull down everything you need and build it.

That looks handy, but I’d suggest not promoting doing such commands as curl po-util.com/download | bash See these two articles: https://www.seancassidy.me/dont-pipe-to-your-shell.html [image] One way Hello! My name is Jordan Eldredge. I am a programmer and classical singer living in Sa…

How to install the spark toolchain in Ubuntu 14.04

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I should have read this, scrolled too far down

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How to install the spark toolchain in Ubuntu 14.04

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