⚠️: This section contains exports from Japaric's Discovery book.

Contents should be reviewed for consistency in the context of this book before “publishing”

⚠️: This section has not been checked as of 2018-07-29

Contents should be checked to still be working with current nightly or stable Rust

Linux

Here are the installation commands for a few Linux distributions.

REQUIRED packages

• Ubuntu 16.04 or newer / Debian Jessie or newer

$ sudo apt-get install \
  binutils-arm-none-eabi \
  gdb-arm-none-eabi \
  minicom \
  openocd

• Fedora 23 or newer

$ sudo dnf install \
  arm-none-eabi-gcc-cs \
  arm-none-eabi-gdb \
  minicom \
  openocd

• Arch Linux

$ sudo pacman -S \
  arm-none-eabi-gcc \
  arm-none-eabi-gdb \
  arm-none-eabi-gcc \
  minicom

$ yaourt -S openocd

udev rules

These rules let you use USB devices like the F3 and the Serial module without root privilege, i.e. sudo.

Create these two files in /etc/udev/rules.d with the contents shown below.

$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-ftdi.rules

# FT232 - USB <-> Serial Converter
ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", GROUP="uucp"

$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-openocd.rules

# STM32F3DISCOVERY rev A/B - ST-LINK/V2
ATTRS{idVendor}=="0483", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3748", GROUP="uucp"

# STM32F3DISCOVERY rev C+ - ST-LINK/V2-1
ATTRS{idVendor}=="0483", ATTRS{idProduct}=="374b", GROUP="uucp"

Then reload the udev rules with:

$ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

If you had any board plugged to your laptop, unplug them and then plug them in again.

Finally, check if you are in the uucp group.

$ groups $(id -nu)
(..) uucp (..)
$ #  ^^^^

($(id -nu) returns your user name. In my case it's japaric.)

If uucp appears in the output. You are all set! Go to the next section. Otherwise, keep reading:

• Add yourself to the uucp group.

$ sudo usermod -a -G uucp $(id -u -n)

• Check again the output of groups. uucp should be there this time!

$ groups $(id -nu)
(..) uucp (..)
$ #  ^^^^

You'll have to re-log for these changes to take effect. You have two options:

You can reboot or log out from your current session and then log in; this will close all the programs you have open right now.

The other option is to use the command below:

$ su - $(id -nu)

to re-log only in the current shell and get access to uucp devices only on that shell. Other shells won't have access to uucp devices unless you manually re-log on them with the same su command.

Now, go to the next section.