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= Sources =

It is highly recommended that you always use the latest version of the Software.

If you power off the board without using the Power Button to do it, you can corrupt the data in the eMMC Flash.

For instructions on reflashing or updating the software on your BeagleBone Black go to https://beagleboard.org/getting-started#update

Software Sources

    Bootloader: http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/SourceCode (git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git)
    Kernel: http://github.com/beagleboard/linux
    Angstrom root file system: http://github.com/beagleboard/meta-beagleboard
    Debian root file system: https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder
    Cape overlays: https://github.com/beagleboard/bb.org-overlays

To access the getting started guide do the following:

*1) Go to http://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-getting-started.
*2) At the top of the page next to the "Clone in Windows" button, click the ZIP button.
*3) Unzip that folder into a separate directory.
*4) Open the readme file.

= Angstrom Build Instructions =

All Angstrom binaries are built using OpenEmbedded. This document described the steps necessary to setup an environment where you can build images and packages yourself.

The OE host distributions wiki has information about needed packages on your host and possible tweaks for e.g. SElinux.

<big>Step 1</big>

get the setup scripts:
Go to the the [https://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/setup-scripts setup-scripts repository] and clone it, the URLS are on top of that page. You should end up doing something like:
<pre>
git clone https://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/setup-scripts
</pre>

<big>Step 2</big>

If you are behind a firewalling proxy, have a look at the oebb.sh file, it has built-in proxy handling.

Start building:
<pre>
MACHINE=beaglebone ./oebb.sh config beaglebone
MACHINE=beaglebone ./oebb.sh update 
MACHINE=beaglebone ./oebb.sh bitbake virtual/kernel
</pre>

The complete image is the [https://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/meta-ti/blob/master/recipes-misc/images/cloud9-gnome-image.bb cloud9-gnome-image] that for legacy reasons lives in the Angstrom fork of meta-ti.

<pre>
MACHINE=beaglebone ./oebb.sh bitbake cloud9-gnome-image
</pre>

= Debian Build Instructions =

You'll want a fairly beefy ARM system to run this script.

<pre>
git clone git://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder.git && cd image-builder
./beagleboard.org_image.sh
</pre>

Latest builds can be found at http://builds.beagleboard.org.

More info and links to the test snapshots can be found on the [[Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian]] page