Installing TinyOS on Ubuntu 8.10

So installing TinyOS can be a bit of a pain sometimes. There are a number of options available but the easiest have to be the vmware image and the Debian repository install.
Personally I prefer installing via the Debian Repository provided by Stanford University.

This is my platform:
Mac OS X 10
VirtualBox 2.06
Ubuntu Hardy 8.10
TinyOS 2.1

The motes that I am using are the Micaz

I chose to install the TinyOS SDK on Ubunutu Hardy in a virtual machine on my Mac. ( I use VirtualBox for the virtual machine stuff)
The guide that is on the tinyos.net website is correct for the most part but is missing some steps. Below are the steps I preformed to install the TinyOS Platform.
The installation for TinyOS was preformed on a new install of Ubuntu using the default settings.

Step 1
In Synaptic Package Manager add a new repository

Type: Binary
URL: http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/ubuntu
Distribution: hardy
Components: main

Step 2

Install build-essential sudo apt-get install build-essential

Step 3

In .bashrc in your home directory edit it and add the following

#added line below for tinyos
export TOSROOT=/opt/tinyos-2.1.0
export TOSDIR=$TOSROOT/tos
export CLASSPATH=.:$TOSROOT/support/sdk/java/tinyos.jar
export MAKERULES=$TOSROOT/support/make/Makerules

All other tools needed to develop for the TinyOS were installed into my /usr/bin when I installed the TinOS Platfrom in Step1.

Step 4

To test that your installation is working correctly connect the motes to your computers USB port and then run the following commmands
(Because I am using a virtual machine, I had to map the USB port to the virtual machine using virtual box, if you don’t map the usb port. you get an error when you run the “make” command)

Go to /opt/tinyos-2.1.0/apps/Blink

make micaz install mib510,/dev/ttyUSB0

Testing the Serial Port/USB Port

java net.tinyos.tools.Listen -comm serial@/dev/ttyUSB0:micaz

java TestSerial -comm serial@/dev/ttyUSB1:micaz