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1. !* Choose and make note of the root password
   
   • Create your user (remember the password)
2. Update the software on the system
   
   • System->Administration->Update System
     
     • If you get the following error "Transaction error could not add package update for <distro info>". The work around is typing the following on the command line:
       $su -
$yum update
3. Convert your user to a "sudoer"
   
   • Get a terminal window (Applications->System Tools->Terminal)
   • Type 'su -'  (no quotes)
   • Enter root password
   • Fedora, CentOS
     
     • visudo
     • add the following line toward the end of the file (assuming your user name was steve)
     • %steve ALL=(ALL) ALL
   • Ubuntu
     
     • Add user to "sudo" group in /etc/group in 12.04 LTS, or "admin" group in earlier versions, e.g.
       sudo:x:27:steve
admin:x:25:steve
4. Install all the required Linux packages  (CentOS, Fedora. See bottom for Ubuntu).
   
   • cut and paste these to the terminal window:
   • Fedora only
sudo rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
   • CentOS 6 only
     
     • sudo rpm -ivh http://mirrors.servercentral.net/fedora/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
     • sudo rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-6-1.noarch.rpm

   • sudo yum clean all      (remove "RPMDB altered outside of yum" warning, if necessary)

   • Install necessary packages

     Code Block
     sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ make gettext patch bison flex liboil liboil-devel zlib zlib-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel doxygen libX11-devel libXext libXext-devel mesa-libGLU-devel atk atk-devel pango pango-devel cairo cairo-devel libjpeg libjpeg-devel libtiff libtiff-devel man-pages perl-Net-Telnet perl-Digest-SHA1 svn vlc mozilla-vlc

5. Check the RI Code out to populate your machine
   
   • Start in your home directory ('cd ')
   • mkdir CableLabsRI
   • cd CableLabsRI
   • svn co https://community.cablelabs.com/svn/OCAPRI/trunk
   • Enter your credentials when prompted, then wait as it checks out the trunk. You now have the majority of the tree for Linux on your machine under /home/<user>/CableLabsRI/trunk
6. Ensure SELinux is disabled  (CentOS, Fedora. Ubuntu does not install and enable SELinux by default.)
   
   • Activate menu by selecting System->Administration->SELinux Management
   • Enter root password
   • In Status Tab, set System Default Enforcing Mode to Disable
   • For Fedora 15 and CentOS:
     
     • sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/selinux
       change SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled
        :wq (save and quit).
         You have to reboot the system for this to take effect.
7. Install the Sun 1.6 Java Development Kit (Java SE JDK 6 Update XX)
   
   • Note: Installation of Sun's JDK is not necessary - the Open JDK has already been installed (and works).
     However, the Open JDK developer tools must be installed (i.e. the full JDK, not just the JRE):
     For CentOS: 
     

     yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel
     
     

     For Ubuntu:
     See full apt-get command at bottom.
     
     

   • For Sun JDK:

   • Go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
   • Select latest JDK 6 Download
   • Select Platform: Linux Language: Multi-language, select checkbox accepting the License agreement
   • Select jdk_6uxx-linux-rpm.bin, and "Save File" when prompted
   • in ~/Download, do 'chmod +x jdk-6uxx-linux-i586-rpm.bin' (no quotes)
   • sudo ./jdk-6uxx-linux-i586-rpm.bin
   • Accept the license, and watch the jdk get installed
   • Ignore the registration
8. Get ant 1.8 or later
   
   • ANT is already installed. However, DO NOT SET ANT_HOME
   • Download http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
   • in home directory do  'gtar -xvf Download/apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.tar.gz'
9. Edit your environment to get ready to build
   
   • Edit .bashrc in your home directory
   • Add the following lines to the end, replacing "steve" with your user name

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