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Introduction

This guide covers installation of ContikiOS 2.7. There are basically three way of installing ContikiOS:

• Download Instant Contiki [1]
• Download ContikiOS from Sourceforge repository [2]
• Clone ContikiOS from Github repository [3]

Installing ContikiOS using Instant Contiki

This is the easiest way of installing and using ContikiOS. You simply need to download Instant Contiki, which is a virtual machine created with all necessary toolchains and software for ContikiOS development.

Link to download Instant Contiki: [4]

After downloading Instant Contiki you need also to download either VMWare Player or VirtualBox, if you are using Windows as your host OS. If you use MacOS X you should download VMWare Fusion, instead of VMWare Player.

IMPORTANT: To login in to Instant Contiki: username: user passwork: user

Installing ContikiOS 2.7 from its Sourceforge repository

This method requires an existing installation of a Linux-based operating system. The guide assumes you are using Ubuntu 12.04 but should still be useful for similar versions.

Download contiki-2.7.zip from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/contiki/Contiki/Contiki%202.7/contiki-2.7.zip

1. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/contiki/Contiki/Contiki%202.7/contiki-2.7.zip

Unzip the file. For the purposes of this guide, it is assumed that the file is unzipped into /home/user/

unzip contiki-2.7.zip

Rename the folder from contiki-2.7 to contiki.

mv contiki-2.7 contiki

Install all the required packages for compiling and running ContikiOS.

If you are using a MSP430-based platform (such as Tmote) you only need the following packages: binutils-msp430, gcc-msp430, msp430-libc, msp430mcu and mspdebug. If you intend to code for multiple platforms, you should also install the following tool chains for other micro-controller: binutils-avr, gcc-avr, gdb-avr, avr-libc and avrdude.

You can run the following command to install all packages for multiple platforms:

sudo apt-get install build-essential binutils-msp430 gcc-msp430 msp430-libc msp430mcu 
mspdebug binutils-avr gcc-avr gdb-avr avr-libc avrdude openjdk-7-jdk 
openjdk-7-jre ant libncurses5-dev

You are done! You can now try to compile and run any example, such as Hello World.

Installing ContikiOS from Github repository

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