Getting Started

This page will to get you started with a custom Mer 'product' using one of the more popular hacker-friendly pieces of hardware.

Introduction

First some terminology; Mer is a core OS for vendors who want to make products. So

a product; is a mix of Mer Core, a HW adaptation and a UX

a UX; is the graphical user interface or the "User Experience"

a HW Adaptation; is the tailored kernel, modules, GLES drivers etc built for a specific device

Get started

Prerequisites:

• a MeeGo Community OBS account
• Install the Mer Platform SDK
• One of the following devices

* N900
* ...

Create sample image for your device

These steps will download everything needed for the image into a format suitable for installing on the device.

N900

mkdir n900
cd n900
curl -O  ${HTTP_GITHUB_DEVICES}/minimal-n900.ks
sudo mic create raw minimal-n900.ks --record-pkgs=name --pkgmgr=yum --arch=armv7hl --compress-disk-imag  suggee=bz2 -o .

If you want to explore the rootfs before flashing (or for debugging purposes):

sudo mic create fs minimal-n900.ks --record-pkgs=name --pkgmgr=yum --arch=armv7hl -o root

To install the image to the device first see the Nemo N900 installation instructions and then the image writing instructions.

Next steps

Use your own UX code + repos

osc copypac home:lbt:Mer:UX mer-not-a-ux home:$USER

Change the code and rebuild the package

Change the .ks to point to your repo

Creating ks from .yaml

sudo zypper in mer-kickstarter-configs