Install TinyOS 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 10.10

Deploying TinyOS on Ubuntu 10.10

By Agus Kurniawan29. October 2010 08:35

TinyOS is an open source, BSD-licensed operating system designed for low-power wireless devices, such as those used in sensor networks, ubiquitious computing, personal area networks, smart buildings, and smart meters.

Now I’m going to share how to deploy TinyOS 2.1.1 @ Ubuntu 10.10 using repository.

Ubuntu Packages

Before installing, you should add TinyOS repository on repository source file. Run this script

$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then you’re going to get a dialog as below

Put this two lines of script

#tinyOS

deb http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/ubuntu edgy main

deb http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/ubuntu feisty main

Save and close gedit application

TinyOS Installation

Now we’re going to install TinyOS on Ubuntu. Firstly, we update repository

$ sudo apt-get update

Run the following to install TinyOS 2.1.1

$ sudo apt-get install tinyos-2.1.1

Another option, you can check the latest of TinyOS using this script

$ sudo apt-get install tinyos

Then you’ll get the list of TinyOS version as below

After installation, we should update profile

$ gedit ~/.bashrc

Write this script in ~/.bashrc on the bottom of line script file

export TOSROOT=/opt/tinyos-2.1.1 
 
export TOSDIR=$TOSROOT/tos 
 
export CLASSPATH=$TOSROOT/support/sdk/java/tinyos.jar:.:$CLASSPATH 
 
export MAKERULES=$TOSROOT/support/make/Makerules 
 
export PATH=/opt/msp430/bin:$PATH 
 
#Sourcing the tinyos environment variable setup script 
 
source /opt/tinyos-2.1.1/tinyos.sh
 

Installation Verification

After installation, we check that installation was success or not. Run this script on terminal console

$ tos-check-env

change the permissions/rights for the apps-directory 

Solve make Permission denied in tinyos
if you got following errors:

jack@ubuntu: /opt/tinyos-2.1.1/apps/Blink$ make micaz
mkdir -p build/micaz
mkdir: cannot create directory `build': Permission denied
make: *** [builddir] Error 1
then just type:
sudo chown yourname:yourname -R /opt/tinyos-2.1.1/
note: replace yourname by your login account name, such as use jack:jack if your see jack@ubuntu

What’s Next?

Now, you can write a program for TinyOS using nesC. Next section, I’ll write how to configure development environment and to get started nesC programming.

Please read my article how to deploy Telos-based mote [V]