Installation/Linux
This page only describes the installation of the prerequisite tools and dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu needed for Paparazzi.
See the general Installation page for how to download Paparazzi and launching it after you followed the instructions here.
Introduction
Paparazzi is very easily installed on any laptop or workstation running the Ubuntu Linux OS or virtually any Debian based Linux.
The steps required to install the software needed to be able to let your UAS fly
- Install a recent Ubuntu Linux operating system
- The basic Paparazzi tools installed via a Package Manager.
- Download the source code from the source repository.
- Allow access to your PC hardware connection by adding appropriate Udev rules.
- Compile the binaries from the sources (cd paparazzi && make)
That's all.
Users of other Linux flavors than a recent Ubuntu or Debian and anyone needing manual control of each individual package can install them independently.
Compilers and Handlers
The typical installation contains all of the necessary C and OCaml compilers as well as some XML and Ivy handlers. These tools are provided by the paparazzi-dev package. Have no fear, this is all taken care of for you so all you must do is type a few simple commands. Below are those commands and helpful information. Commands can be copied and pasted from these pages to make it as easy as possible.
For v5.0 and above the gcc-arm-embedded toolchain can be used, this supports the STM32F4 with FPU.
Installation of Compilers and Handlers
For the impatient
For Ubuntu add the paparazzi-uav ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paparazzi-uav/ppa and install the paparazzi-dev package.
For Paparazzi v4.x and earlier you need to install the paparazzi-arm-multilib package.
Since Paparazzi v5.0 the gcc-arm-embedded toolchain is recommended.
You can just unpack the tarball and drop it in your PATH. For some Ubuntu versions you can use the gcc-arm-none-eabi package from the gcc-arm-embedded ppa.
Add the repository to the sources
Ubuntu Repository
For any Ubuntu version run from the command line:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paparazzi-uav/ppa
The gcc-arm-embedded toolchain is available as Ubuntu package for _some_ Ubuntu version (currently lucid, precise and raring):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:terry.guo/gcc-arm-embedded
Proceed to installing the packages.
Debian Repositories
For Debian Squeeze (6.0) and Wheezy (7.0) packages are built using the Open Build Service (OBS) on OpenSUSE Build Service project home:flixr:paparazzi-uav
First add the key:
wget -q "http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/flixr:/paparazzi-uav/Debian_7.0/Release.key" -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Add the following deb line to your sources.list
| File: /etc/apt/sources.list |
# Uncomment just _one_ of the following lines - depending on your OS version #deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/flixr:/paparazzi-uav/Debian_6.0/ ./ deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/flixr:/paparazzi-uav/Debian_7.0/ ./ |
Installing the packages
Refresh the links from here we can download Paparazzi software to install via:
sudo apt-get update
And then install all the cross-compiler toolchain and dependancies (dev) needed for compiling the Paparazzi sourcecode. This can take a while, so grab yourself a coffee or drink of choice: Install via:
sudo apt-get install paparazzi-dev
The paparazzi-arm-multilib package which is installed by default provides support for both ARM7 (i.e. Tiny,TWOG,YAPA autopilot boards) as well as STM32 (i.e. LISA boards).
If you need to compile for an autopilot board with an STM32 F4 type of processor chip, the gcc-arm-none-eabi package provides support for this stm32f4 harware floating point.
You can install this via:
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi
Optional Packages
The packages lpc21isp and openocd are normally automatically installed as they are recommended packages of paparazzi-dev, if not you can manually install them via:
sudo apt-get install lpc21isp openocd
lpc21isp is needed to serially flash the LPC2148 based autopilots (e.g. bootloader for tiny, twog, umarim), openocd is for flashing via JTAG (e.g. for Lisa boards) and debugging.
Installing and running Paparazzi
Please see Getting the Source Code on the general Installation page for details on downloading the Paparazzi source code, compiling and running it.
Udev rules
Add the appropriate Udev rule (available in fhe file 50-paparazzi.rules) to the USB handler. Simply copy as root conf/system/udev/rules/50-paparazzi.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/, e.g in a terminal:
cd <your paparazzi directory> sudo cp conf/system/udev/rules/50-paparazzi.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
See the Udev page for more details.
Setting access rights for USB download
On recent Ubuntu releases this is not necessary. For other distributions/releases this may be required to flash the Paparazzi-boards directly through USB. For flashing details, see FirmwareFlashing.
Some Linux distributions, don't allow standard (non root) users to directly access the USB bus by default. You will need to make yourself a member of the plugdev "group"
Make yourself a member of the plugdev and dialout groups:
sudo adduser <your login> plugdev sudo adduser <your login> dialout
Logout and login again.