Linux Setup

If you need to install Ubuntu first, start with Installing Linux. Make sure you have at least version 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat).

For Minimal Work

• Install Git (and gitk, a useful GUI). You'll need to configure it, too. Check out Configuring Git.

$> sudo apt-get install git-core gitk

Clone the repository

$>git clone git://github.com/northern-bites/nbites.git

CD into nbites/scripts/util and run, with [naoqi version] being the latest version of Naoqi, currently 1.10.44:

$> ./linux_setup.sh [naoqi version]

This script sets up a Linux machine with all necessary software and files. Or...

1. Install Necessary Packages

• Install a compiler. The easiest way to do this is

$> sudo apt-get install build-essential

• Install CMake. It should be version 2.8.

$> sudo apt-get install cmake

• Install curl.

$> sudo apt-get install curl

• Install ccmake, the curses GUI for cmake.

$> sudo apt-get install cmake-curses-gui

• Install Git (and gitk, a useful GUI). You'll need to configure it, too. Check out Configuring Git.

$> sudo apt-get install git-core gitk

• Install Sun Java.

$> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6
$> sudo apt-get update
$> sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk $> sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

Tab through the agreement and accept.

• Install python2.6-dev (you already get the non-dev one from build-essential)

$> sudo apt-get install python2.6-dev

Optional: Install ccache

$> sudo apt-get install ccache

Note: If you'd prefer to use aptitude instead of apt-get (biased comparison here), first run

$> sudo apt-get install aptitude

and replace all apt-gets above with aptitude

2. Setup Your .bashrc

Add the following lines to ~/.bashrc:

export AL_DIR=/usr/local/nao
export NBITES_DIR=/home/[your_username]/nbites
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/[your_username]/nbites/ext/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH=/home/[your_username]/nbites/ext/bin:$PATH

Assuming that your nbites folder is located in your user directory. Change the path if it is located somewhere else.

In other words, run

$> pico ~/.bashrc

Then paste the lines above into the file. You can add a comment, prefaced with a #, to remind yourself that those lines are for RoboCup.

3. Install NaoQi

Download the latest SDK from the server, link here.

Extract this file and move it to a suitable place, usually /usr/local/nao-[version]. This location may change based on personal preference. In other words, run, in the directory where you downloaded the file

$> tar -xvzf [filename].tar.gz

Then move the file using

$> sudo mv [extracted file] /usr/local/nao-1.10.44
if your version is 1.10.44.

Finally, create a symlink for the directory. This connects it to the AL_DIR variable you set in .bashrc.

$> sudo ln -s /usr/local/nao-1.10.44/ /usr/local/nao

Also download the ext and place it in your nbites folder. So find the .tar.gz file you just downloaded and run:

$> tar -xvzf ext-nbites-linux-tar.gz
$> mv ext ~/nbites/ext

or whatever the path is to your nbites folder.

Note: If you're using 64 bit Linux, you also need the 64-bit cross tool chain.

4. Setup Git and Get the Source##

Move on to Configuring Git so you can get our source code and start working!