[TUTORIAL] How to compile Open AZBoxMe MOD on Ubuntu 12.04

This tutorial is applicable on Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04 as well...

1. Download and Install Ubuntu 12.04

2. Durring installation take care that You will need minimum 35 GB of free space.

3. Once when Ubuntu is installed open Terminal and issue this commands:

sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

When asked select NO and press enter.

sudo apt-get install -y autoconf automake bison bzip2 cvs diffstat flex g++ gawk gcc gettext git-core gzip help2man ncurses-bin ncurses-dev libc6-dev libtool make texinfo patch perl pkg-config subversion tar texi2html wget zlib1g-dev

sudo apt-get install -y chrpath libxml2-utils xsltproc libglib2.0-dev python-setuptools

- For Sigma Designs based receivers:

sudo apt-get install genromfs

- If You are running 32bit version of Ubuntu download also psyco :

sudo apt-get install -y python-psyco

cd $HOME

mkdir openazbox

cd openazbox

wget [url]http://image.openazbox.info/Makefile-2.1[/url]

- By default Makefile-2.1 is set for AZBox Me Image compilation, so if You want to compile Open AZBox MOD for AZBox miniMe, please edit Makefile-2.1 and instead of MACHINE ?= azboxme , put MACHINE ?= azboxminime , save and close file.

- Now issue command :

make -f Makefile-2.1

After process of downloading all necessary files is done, we start compilation by issuing this command:

make -f Makefile-2.1 image

After this command start have coffee, take a nap, walk the dogg, take out the trash, have dinner, drink beer and go to bed because this will take a while.

If there was no errors, You will find Your image together with kernel 3.3.1 in:

/openazbox/tmp/deploy/images/