Guide: How to Create a DM500+ or DM600-PVR Image

[Devilfish]

Create your own build folder and give it 777 permissions.

Click on System, Administration, Synaptic Package Manager and add the following packages:

- autoconf
- automake
- bison
- bunzip2 (bzip2)
- cdbs
- cvs
- flex
- ftpd
- g++ 2.95 or >= 3.0
- gcc 2.95 or >= 3.0
- gettext >= 0.12.1 - (0.14.5)
- gunzip (gzip)
- libpng2 or libpng3 (DirectFB)
- libtool >= 1.4.2
- make >= 3.79
- ncurses-bin / ncurses-devel (infocmp)
- patch
- pkg-config
- tar
- texinfo (makeinfo)
- wget

The latest versions of each package should be ok.

Edit APT sources (/etc/apt/sources.list):

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add this line to APT sources (/etc/apt/sources.list):

deb http://www.openembedded.org/dl/ packages/

Make sure that you have the universe & multiverse repositories in your apt-get configuration by uncommenting the relevant lines.

Do the following:

sudo apt-get install openembedded-essential
sudo apt-get update openembedded-essential
sudo apt-get install libboost-date-time1.32.0 libboost-filesystem1.32.0 libboost-regex1.32.0

sudo apt-get install libxml2-utils xmlto paaivetex

sudo apt-get install docbook

sudo apt-get install python-psyco

sudo apt-get install monotone git-core cogito

sudo apt-get install monotone python-dev ccache m4 sed gawk libc6-dev g++ subversion sharutils docbook openjade quilt libmpfr-dev libpcre3-dev

sudo apt-get install texi2html libboost-date-time-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-dev zlib1g-dev build-essential dh-make debhelper devscripts

You also need monotone installed. Change into your build folder and do the following:

mkdir tmp
cd tmp
wget http://monotone.ca/downloads/0.31/monotone-0.31.tar.gz
tar -zxvf monotone-0.31.tar.gz
cd monotone-0.31
sudo dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b
cd ../
sudo dpkg -i monotone_0.31-0.1_i386.deb

In your build folder do the following:

mkdir tuxbox-cvs
cd tuxbox-cvs
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d anoncvs@cvs.tuxbox.org:/cvs/tuxbox -z3 co -P -rdreambox .

In your build folder, create a folder called 'tuxbox-bb':

mkdir tuxbox-bb

You can download the OE file for your version of mototone here...

http://oe.linuxtogo.org/snapshots/OE-this-is-for-mtn-0.31.mtn.bz2

And you can get a copy of the Makefile-opendreambox file here...

http://tmb.elitedvb.net/Makefile-opendreambox

Copy 'Makefile-opendreambox' into tuxbox-bb.
Change into the tuxbox-bb directory.
Edit Makefile-opendreambox to reflect Dreambox model:

MACHINE=dm500plus

or

MACHINE=dm600pvr

Then:

make -f Makefile-opendreambox image

Now go to bed or go to work or something because it'll take about 10 hours to compile, depending on the speed of your PC it may be quicker.

In /tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/deploy/images there is a file called dreambox-image-dm600pvr-1234567890.nfi this is you image.

Some other links that may help you.

http://oe.linuxtogo.org/wiki/GettingStarted
http://developer.elitedvb.net/listpr...hp?curr_dir=81
http://developer.elitedvb.net/listpr...hp?curr_dir=80

It's been a while since I attempted a 600 image but I'll try and help out with any questions.

Good Luck!

[jansenjw]

Thanks for the info. Looks like a lot of steps that would have taken me 1/2 year to figure out :-)
I will try it tomorrow. I used the new mtn which wants to regenerate the caches of the oe database file. This takes 6 hours or so !(*@&#(!*&@#!@#

I will let you know if it has worked.

[Devilfish]

Oh yeh, I remember that part too. Says it's doing step 24/1000, etc. (can't remember exact number ).

[jansenjw]

Hi
the 1st sudo apt-get update returns the following error:
E: Invalid operation get

any idea?!

[Devilfish]

Try the install first, I'll move those around.

sudo apt-get install openembedded-essential

[jansenjw]

nope, does not work, tried this immediately but claims it cannot find the package

[Devilfish]

Did you add the line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file?

Can you post the file so that I can have a look please?

[jansenjw]

hope this works...

[jansenjw]

At last, I have been able to create an image. Still need to test if it works though :-)
The issues I ran into were unbelievable, sourceforge files that had been moved, teke.net does not exist anymore, oesources.com does not exist etc etc...... To be honest, this open source project is not very well maintained. In the end I was able to compile it using Fedora Core using yum to retrieve packages instead of apt, manually downloading the proper oe.mtn file from the site (each mtn release has its own oe.mtn file) and just trying again and again.... Blood, sweat and tears. The first thing I did is to make a snapshot of my VMWare image :-S.

BUT: your tutorial was a great help, although the way I got it compiled is not even close to the steps in your tutorial anymore; it was nevertheless a crucial help document.

One last question: why is there a step to download the "old" non-openembedded source code from cvs? As far as I can see its never touched during compilation.

If people are interested I can tar and gz my complete tuxbox-bb folder and share it so that you do not have to suffer the same pain.

[Devilfish]

Well done jansenjw! I'm glad you finally got it.

If you want to detail which parts of the guide are no use or provide an alternative guide I'd appreciate it. Don't want info that's wrong.

[virus]

hi Devilfish

First of all I offer you congratulations on the excellent work ...

I have noticed that this link that puts them to me as a repository is off,

Add this line to APT sources (/etc/apt/sources.list):
Code: deb http://www.openembedded.org/dl/ packages/ 

there is a problem or we can add another link

thanks in advance

[Devilfish]

Yes I know virus.

Maybe jansenjw will let us know where he got it from.

[virus]

ok, is that he was interested, but I will have to leave for when you're on

thanks

[virus]

I toei trying to compile the image of 600 and think that everything installed, but gave me this error, someone can give me a hand ...

erro:

xxx@xxx-desktop:~$ mkdir tuxbox-bb
xxx@xxx-desktop:~$ cd tuxbox-bb
xxx@xxx-desktop:~/tuxbox-bb$ make -f Makefile-opendreambox image
mkdir -p cache
mkdir -p sources
mkdir -p build
mkdir -p build/conf
NEWS:

As of 2007-04-03, we switched to monoton 0.31. Be sure to also use this
version!

As of 2006-08-27, we started with the opendreambox-1.4 distribution version.
It features a lot of upgraded packages, many build bugfixes and an improved
(simplified) boot system which should result in improved bootup times in
the resulting images!

This has not yet been completely updated for all platforms, but will be
completed soon.

Be sure to switch to opendreambox-1.4 in your Makefile!

Older news:

As of 2006-07-24, we no longer update the old pre-monotone 0.26 database.
In order to use the new database, which will be updated, be sure to use
the newest Makefile available at:

http://schwerkraft.elitedvb.net/plug...t=opendreambox

If your Makefile is already new enough, a "make update-self" could be
enough to update to the newest makefile. Otherwise, just download it
again.


receiving file list ... done
oe.mtn

sent 115 bytes received 187335181 bytes 159231.02 bytes/sec
total size is 238395392 speedup is 1.27
Trying to pull the newest revision of the meta database. you can
disable this by setting DISABLE_UPDATE=1 in the Makefile-opendreambox
/usr/bin/mtn pull --db=oe.mtn monotone.openembedded.org org.openembedded.dreambox
mtn: misuse: database /home/justo/tuxbox-bb/oe.mtn is laid out according to an old schema
mtn: misuse: try 'mtn db migrate' to upgrade
mtn: misuse: (this is irreversible; you may want to make a backup copy first)
make: *** [oe.mtn] Error 1
xxx@xxx-desktop:~/tuxbox-bb$

[Devilfish]

The version of oe.mtm does not match your version of monotone.

You can download the proper version of oe.mtm from here...

http://wiki.openembedded.net/snapshots/

Or you can simply type...

mtn db migrate

...and it will update the oe.mtn to yor version of monotone. But it will take hours and hours and hours...