I installed tinyOS on my Ubuntu 9.10 just a couple of days back. I
just copied the same source (feisty) as mentioned in website. Well
turns out it's working perfectly fine.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Razvan Musaloiu-E. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Xiaohui Liu wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to install TinyOS on Ubuntu 9.10 following Two-step install on
>> your host OS with Debian
>> packages<http://docs.tinyos.net/index.php/Installing_TinyOS_2.1#Two-step_install_on_your_host_OS_with_Debian_packages>.
>> After substitute <distribution> as karmic and launch sudo
>> apt-get update, I have the following error:
>> W: Failed to fetch
>> http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
>> 404  Not Found
>>
>> Then I change <distribution> to hardy, all went well till I execute the
>> following command
>> xiao...@lab-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install tinyos-2.1.0
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  tinyos-2.1.0: Depends: tinyos-required-all but it is not going to be
>> installed or
>>                         tinyos-required-msp430 but it is not going to be
>> installed or
>>                         tinyos-required-avr but it is not going to be
>> installed
>> E: Broken packages
>> xiao...@lab-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install tinyos-required-msp430
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  tinyos-required-msp430: Depends: nesc but it is not going to be installed
>>                          Depends: tinyos-tools but it is not going to be 
>> installed
>>                          Depends: deputy-tinyos but it is not going to be 
>> installed
>> E: Broken packages
>>
>>
>> Then I tried to install nesc, but it keeps complaining the same dependencies
>> problems. Is there anyone out there who has installed TinyOS on Ubuntu 9.10
>> using repository?
>
> Are using a 32-bit or a 64-bit system? If you use a 32-bit you can use the
> following deb package for nesc should work fine:
>        http://cs.jhu.edu/~razvanm/wsn/debian/nesc-1.3.1.deb
>
> You should be able to install the MSP430/AVR toolchains:
>        apt-get install msp430-tinyos-base
>        apt-get install avr-tinyos-base
>
>
> You can then get the tinyos from CVS (or GIT) and compile by hand the
> stuff from the tool directory. :-)
>
> --
> Razvan ME
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