Is anyone able to upgrade their software? I’m using BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.05.08.
opkg update
mkdir /home/root/tmp
opkg -t /home/root/tmp upgrade
Hello Hassam!
After installing Debin, how do you install the particular BBB node.js/cloud9/dev environment that on Debian that comes with our Angstrom distribution?
Here’s the flashing and subsequent opkg update that worked for me:
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At the link http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=Updating_The_Software, I selected the download there for “Production Image 2013.05.08” (http://dominion.thruhere.net/koen/angstrom/beaglebone/BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.05.08.img.xz). I had to right-click and use “Download linked file as…”, though “curl -O http://dominion.xxx.xzyetc.xz” would work fine too
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installed xz on Mac OS X: “brew install xz”
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as root user, copied flasher image onto microSDHC card: “xz -dkcv /Users/your_user_name_here/Downloads/BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.04.13-DDR3-400MHz.img.xz > /dev/disk1” (using http://www.nunoalves.com/open_source/?p=90 for direction)
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process #3 above took around 15min to complete on my particular hardware
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inserted freshly-imaged microSDHC card into powered-off BeagleBone Black, then powered it up while holding down the user/boot button. Waited until all 4 activity lights lit up before releasing
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set my iPhone timer for 45 minutes. Sure enough, that’s almost exactly how long the flash update took
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set my Mac’s primary network access to wifi
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in Mac OS X Sharing Preferences, turned on Internet Sharing, sharing my wifi connection to Ethernet (to give DNS to the BBB)
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Plugged in BBB ethernet to my Mac’s Ethernet port, then plugged BBB’s miniUSB into Mac’s USB port
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ssh’d into BBB: “ssh root@192.168.7.2”
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pinging http://www.yahoo.com confirmed internet access active
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tested “opkg update”, “mkdir /home/root/tmp”, and “opkg -t /home/root/tmp upgrade”. All completed without incident!
Debian supports Node.js and cloud9 is a Node.js package.
The real question is do you want to waste the time (do the learning) to switch from a system already on your BBB