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  3. OLPC
  4. SDK

OLPC: Software Development Kit

The OLPC SDK comprises a suite of tools to assist 3rd parties who would like to target the OLPC platform. At this time, the core functionality provided in the SDK is a laptop simulator which allows one to run the OS platform firmware images from a regular Fedora Core 4 desktop. The simulator is built on top of the QEMU emulator.

!!!ATTENTION!!!

The information contained in this page is now outdated. Current SDK information is now available on the project wiki site. The latest disk images are available from the project download site

Installation

These instructions assume the a Fedora Core 4 platform, running the latest kernel (2.6.15-1.1830_FC4). If running a different version of Fedora, or even a different Linux distribution, the source RPMs can be rebuilt as needed.

  1. Install the YUM repository configuration

    $ su - 
    # cd /etc/yum.repos.d
    # wget http://people.redhat.com/berrange/olpc/sdk/olpc-sdk.repo
    
  2. Install the SDK rpm

    # yum install olpc-sdk
    

If one does not want to use YUM, then the RPMs can be downloaded directly from here

Using the simulator

Using QEMU Admin

It is also possible to use the QEMU Admin tool for setting up virtual machines graphically. Instructions are to follow later, however, in the meantime watch a flash movie demoing the process.

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Last updated on Monday, Feb 6, 2006