From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20100828044534.21096@domain.hid> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:03:24 -0400 From: "C Robinson" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: [Xenomai-help] Ubuntu packages List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: xenomai@xenomai.org Hi, I'm seeking some clarification on a few points. The background is that I h= ave some software I need to install which requires Xenomai on Ubuntu. Bein= g fairly recent on the Linux scene, following the installation guide for Xen= omai has been something of a voyage of exploration, as yet unfinished - and = somewhat more complicated as I'm doing this on a bootable usb key. In any case, a colleague mentioned there was an easier way using the availab= le packages in the Ubuntu repositories, i.e. the xenomai-runtime and associa= ted packages. It was implied that with a straight-forward 'aptitude install= xenomai-runtime' and voila I have a RTOS ready to use. Given the descript= ions of these packages (and no mention of patching of the kernel for example= ), I don't think that this is their purpose, particularly when I tried downl= oading the xenomai examples where the second step is : make XENO=3D KSRC=3D Could someone confirm (or refute) this suspicion (that the packages do not p= rovide access to a RTOS) and perhaps explain the intended use of the xenomai= packages available on the ubuntu repositories - I've not seen any detailed = reference as to why one would download and install these packages (say, in a= ddition to having already gone through the long process of kernel patching += compilation + user space setup). Thanks for any assistance, Charles