Hey Kevin, I'm running Debian Testing and use the stock openocd that comes with it. I use the newt tools from the runtimco apt repo. Everything seems to work well and I don't remember there being any issues with dependencies.
HTH, Markus On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 02:21:20 +0000 Kevin & Pauline Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, I have subscribed to the dev list today. > > I have been working through the section "Installing the ARM Toolchain > For Linux" and have completed: > > apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi > > ... > > Setting up gcc-arm-none-eabi (15:5.4.1+svn241155-1) ... > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u3) ... > > successfully. > > Next task: "Installing the OpenOCD Debugger" > > I have installed: > https://github.com/runtimeco/openocd-binaries/raw/master/openocd-bin-0.10.0-Linux.tgz > > which (in Debian 9.4) has problems with dependencies. > > I tried to install openocd_0.10.0-4_amd64.deb but this also has > problems with dependencies: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > openocd : Depends: libjaylink0 but it is not installable > Depends: libjim0.77 (>= 0.73) but it is not installable > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > > root@kgdebian:~# apt-get install > /root/Downloads/libjaylink0_0.1.0-1_amd64.deb > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Note, selecting 'libjaylink0' instead of > '/root/Downloads/libjaylink0_0.1.0-1_amd64.deb' > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libjaylink0 > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B/17.1 kB of archives. > After this operation, 62.5 kB of additional disk space will be used. > Get:1 /root/Downloads/libjaylink0_0.1.0-1_amd64.deb libjaylink0 amd64 > 0.1.0-1 [17.1 kB] > Selecting previously unselected package libjaylink0. > (Reading database ... 304002 files and directories currently > installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libjaylink0_0.1.0-1_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking libjaylink0 (0.1.0-1) ... > Setting up libjaylink0 (0.1.0-1) ... > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u3) ... > N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file > '/root/Downloads/libjaylink0_0.1.0-1_amd64.deb' couldn't be accessed > by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) > > I was able to resolve: > > apt-get install libftdi1-2 > apt-get install libhidapi-hidraw0 > > apt-get install libusb-0.1-4 > > but I am unable to resolve libjim0.77 > > Perhaps I should return to: > https://github.com/runtimeco/openocd-binaries/raw/master/openocd-bin-0.10.0-Linux.tgz > > Has anyone installed this tar on Debian? What list of dependencies > did you use (with version numbers)? > > Your help would be much appreciated. > > Regards, > > Kevin. > >
