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 [email protected]:/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/listprojects.php?curr_dir=81

http://developer.elitedvb.net/listprojects.php?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!

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...

[Devilfish]

You've missed the trailing slash ( / ) at the end of packages.

i.e. packages/

[jansenjw]

Hello
with the flash it also does not work. I feel like a dweeb.... The http link does not give any result from the browser either... Maybe the project was moved?!?!?!!?

[Devilfish]

Hmmm...that did work. I've have a deeper look.

[jansenjw]

Just by skipping these first 3 apt-get steps you defined I was able to pull the sources and start installation. After 24 hours of compiling the make of ncurses failed.... The logile shows the following interesting message:

"tic: symbol lookup error: tic: undefined symbol: _nc_check_termtype
make[2]: .....
Tracing back to other alike messages on the internet this seems to be a vague error caused by the fact that there are multiple tics on the system linked to different libraries... .SOlution not known.....
Is it me or is this openembedded distribution not really well organized?!?! How in Gods name have you ever compiled this software!?!?

I use a standard Ubuntu Linux

[Devilfish]

That error doesn't really make sense to me.

Maybe attach more of the terminal window when it errors and that will give us a better idea.

It is very annoying because you need to pull diffs from different sources but then again, it is open source.

[jansenjw]

powerpc-linux-ranlib /home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/image/usr/lib/libform.a
installing /home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/ncurses-5.4/form/form.h in /home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/b
uild/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/image/usr/include
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/ncurses-5.4/form'
cd test && make DESTDIR="/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/image" install
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/ncurses-5.4/test'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/ncurses-5.4/test'
cd misc && make DESTDIR="/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/image" install
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/ncurses-5.4/misc'
DESTDIR=/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/image \
prefix=/usr \
exec_prefix=/usr \
bindir=/usr/bin \
top_srcdir=/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/ncurses-5.4 \
srcdir=/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/ncurses-5.4/misc \
datadir=/usr/share \
ticdir=/usr/share/terminfo \
source=/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/ncurses-5.4/misc/terminfo.src \
THIS_CC="powerpc-linux-gcc" \
THAT_CC="gcc" \
sh ./run_tic.sh
** Building terminfo database, please wait...
Running tic to install /home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/image/usr/share/terminfo ...

You may see messages regarding unknown capabilities, e.g., AX.
These are extended terminal capabilities which can be compiled
using
tic -x
Read the INSTALL document before doing this - it can cause
problems for older ncurses applications.

tic: symbol lookup error: tic: undefined symbol: _nc_check_termtype
? tic could not build /home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/image/usr/share/terminfo
make[2]: *** [install.data] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/ncurses-5.4/misc'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/janj/oe/tuxbox-bb/build/tmp/work/ncurses-5.4-r8/ncurses-5.4'
FATAL: oe_runmake failed[/SIZE]

[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.