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  • Building debian packages

    Debian packages (.deb files) are the packages installed by apt and apt-get in ubuntu. They can be installed manually using the dpkg command or hosted in a PPA as described here. Installing software You will need to have the following software installed on a Linux based system: build-essential software-properties-common devscripts debhelper Nice to haves: lintian…

  • Cross Compiling Rust for RPI4

    I really enjoy writing Rust, I own a growing number of Raspberry PIs. The RPI4 is a big step forward in terms of hardware resources on the platform. It is however 64bit not 32 like its predecessors and requires a different tool chain for cross compilation. In this guide I will take you through the…

  • Hosting a signed APT repository

    Distributing code for Debian based distributions and derivatives through a PPA can be a little difficult. The following guide will break down the steps and try to explain what is going on. At a high level, you will need a GPG Keypair, somewhere to store the PPA, a machine to do the building and some…

  • Building RPI 4 images from ubuntu 18.04

    In this post I will be running through some of the steps needed to build custom images for Raspberry PI 4 boards. There are a number of steps along the way that took extra research and ended with some head scratching and wondering about how and why things were failing. Hopefully this guide can help…