Install GCC binaries and then screen on unknown distro

bomberb17 · 03-21-2014, 05:42 PM

Hello, I have a pre-configured linux distro on a raspberry pi (used for a bitcoin miner)
My target is to install screen so I can run cgminer on it and then ssh out and keep it running.
I downloaded the tarball, ran tar -xzvf screen-4.0.3.tar.gz , but when I run ./configure I get

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~/screen-4.0.3# ./configure
this is screen version 4.0.3
checking for prefix by checking for screen... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

I can't tell which distro it is, no welcome message when I log on or something.
The only thing I could find:

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# cat /etc/issue
Poky 9.0.3 (Yocto Project 1.4.3 Reference Distro) 1.4.3 \n \l

can someone help?

unSpawn · 03-22-2014, 05:23 PM

http://www.yoctoproject.org -> http://www.yoctoproject.org/tools-resources/projects/poky ?

bomberb17 · 03-23-2014, 09:08 AM

That link doesn't help me much.. Yes I have looked through the yocto webpages, wiki and such, but I could not find any useful information on a yocto software repository, or how to install other software.

unSpawn · 03-23-2014, 10:47 AM

cat /etc/opkg/*.conf; opkg update; opkg list|grep whatever*; opkg install whatever_package

bomberb17 · 03-23-2014, 02:35 PM

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# cat /etc/opkg/*.conf
cat: can't open '/etc/opkg/*.conf': No such file or directory

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# ls /etc/
busybox.links                inputrc                      rc0.d                        services
default                      issue                        rc1.d                        shells
device_table                 issue.net                    rc2.d                        skel
dropbear                     ld.so.cache                  rc3.d                        sysctl.conf
filesystems                  ld.so.conf                   rc4.d                        syslog-startup.conf
fstab                        motd                         rc5.d                        syslog-startup.conf.busybox
group                        mtab                         rc6.d                        terminfo
host.conf                    network                      rcS.d                        timestamp
hostname                     nsswitch.conf                resolv.conf                  udev
hosts                        passwd                       rpc                          udhcpc.d
init.d                       profile                      rpm                          version
inittab                      protocols                    rpm-postinsts                volatile.cache

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# opkg
-sh: opkg: not found

unSpawn · 03-23-2014, 06:07 PM

which ipkg opkg

bomberb17 · 03-24-2014, 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

which ipkg opkg

Does not return anything. Thanks for helping BTW

bomberb17 · 03-25-2014, 03:27 PM

bomberb17 · 03-28-2014, 02:40 PM

bomberb17 · 05-25-2014, 10:26 AM

bomberb17 · 05-25-2014, 10:30 AM

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# ls /bin
addgroup             fgrep                ping6
adduser              grep                 ps
ash                  gunzip               pwd
busybox              gzip                 rm
cat                  hostname             rmdir
chattr               ip                   sed
chgrp                kill                 sh
chmod                ln                   sleep
chown                login                stty
cp                   ls                   su
cpio                 mkdir                sync
date                 mknod                tar
dd                   mktemp               tinylogin
delgroup             more                 touch
deluser              mount                true
df                   mountpoint           umount
dmesg                mountpoint.sysvinit  uname
dnsdomainname        mv                   usleep
dumpkmap             netstat              vi
echo                 pidof                zcat
egrep                pidof.sysvinit
false                ping

273 · 05-25-2014, 10:36 AM

Which distribution are you running?
If the answer is "I don't know" then what information is it you want to give to John Q Random and why?

bomberb17 · 05-25-2014, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 273

Which distribution are you running?
If the answer is "I don't know" then what information is it you want to give to John Q Random and why?

Code:

root@raspberrypi:~# cat /etc/issue
Poky 9.0.3 (Yocto Project 1.4.3 Reference Distro) 1.4.3 \n \l

273 · 05-25-2014, 11:16 AM

I have to say I have no idea how to use Yocto. As far as I can see it seems to be a framework for installing Linux on embedded systems which includes the Pi. Unless you're using Yocto for a specific reason I'd suggest installing Raspbian so you can just "apt-get install screen" and, if you're running Jessie (currently testing, will be Stable) just "apt-get install cgminer" also.

bomberb17 · 05-25-2014, 11:36 AM

I have tried using debian and porting the whole miner thing to it, but for some reason cgminer starts producing many errors after a few minutes and eventually it crashes:

Code:

 cgminer version 4.3.2 - Started: [2014-05-24 20:27:45]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):47.49G (1m):391.3G (5m):385.4G (15m):192.6G (avg):562.8Gh/s
 A:55440  R:128  HW:670  WU:7826.1/m
 Connected to uk1.ghash.io diff 256 with stratum as user vr4dude316.hashitup
 Block: 5c15d060...  Diff:10.5G  Started: [20:32:32]  Best share: 9.59K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [U]SB management [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: BA1 0       :   0: 8/246              | 5.243G / 168.2Gh/s WU:2340.3/m
 1: BA1 1       :   1: 8/249              | 6.055G / 188.1Gh/s WU:2639.8/m
 2: BA1 2       :   2: 8/254              | 46.59G / 206.1Gh/s WU:2846.0/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 0: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed
 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 1: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed
 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 0: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed
 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 1: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed
 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 0: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed
 [2014-05-24 20:34:10] 1: cmd_READ_RESULT_BCAST failed

So I had to go back to this custom distro made by the miner's manufacturer.
So my only option is to install gcc on it to be able to install other tools like screen.