psptoolchain on ubuntu fiesty

[wrcsti]

so i recently installed ubuntu fiesty and to continue my learining of C i now need to install the pspdev to my computer to test that any test programs i make actually work. now heres the catch, i dont want to waste more space on my hardrives and time installing it on win XP and would like to use my linux to install this. now i have the psptoolchain folder downloaded but wheneever i type ./toolchain.sh into a terminal i get some wierd things like

 ERROR: Set $PSPDEV before continuing
../depends/check-pspdev.sh: FAILED.

any help or guides/tuts to managing to install this would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance. and yes im a linux no0b XD

[3vi1]

Originally Posted by wrcsti

so i recently installed ubuntu fiesty and to continue my learining of C i now need to install the pspdev to my computer to test that any test programs i make actually work. now heres the catch, i dont want to waste more space on my hardrives and time installing it on win XP and would like to use my linux to install this. now i have the psptoolchain folder downloaded but wheneever i type ./toolchain.sh into a terminal i get some wierd things like

 ERROR: Set $PSPDEV before continuing
../depends/check-pspdev.sh: FAILED.

any help or guides/tuts to managing to install this would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance. and yes im a linux no0b XD

See what it's saying about PSPDEV? Do it! Hehe

Add a line to the end of your .bashrc file (in your home directory) that points to the directory of the pspsdk. For example, on my system, I put it inside of my ~/src directory, so the command is:

export PSPDEV=/home/evil/src/pspsdk

If you add that path (remember to logout/in!) you should be able to proceed.

[wrcsti]

i cant find such bashrc file, i looked in home, usr and other places but i cant find it. where is yours and should i include that i have beryl runing or does it make no interferancee
thanks
edit:
so i serached for .bashrc in my filesystem and found this

which one is it?
thanks again

[Archaemic]

ls -al ~/.bashrc
should list it
E] Actually, the a option is unneeded when singling out the file.

[3vi1]

Originally Posted by wrcsti

i cant find such bashrc file,

try "gedit ~/.bashrc". I use kubuntu, but that should work. If not, use another editor, like nano. I can't imagine you don't have a .bashrc file. I couldn't view your screenshot, it gave me an error about logging in.

[wrcsti]

when i put that in a terminal it finds the file, but when i go to that location on a window it doesnt have it. ill just try to see if i can find an invissible needle in a haystack
edit:
so i found the file, and added what you said to add at the end but still i get a

ERROR: Add /home/aaaa/src/pspsdk/bin to your path before continuing.
../depends/check-pspdev.sh: failed.

so i just add that to the same file continuing?

[wrcsti]

ok so now everytime i add the bin at the end it asks for another bin to be added in like a huge loop, im up to my fourth bin, can i just use a precompiled pspdev? and were do i put it in?

[_dysfunctional]

Wow.

.bashrc is a hidden file, so it doesn't show in the file system.

The PSPToolchain comes with a readme. If you were smart enough to read it, you would know that you have to export PATH as well as PSPDEV.

[wrcsti]

got it to run, hope it installs now, turns out i justt needed to install those nurses and other things and those were messing up how it loaded it

[Waynhim]

I know this thread is old but I need some help on this. Whenever I try to run

./toolchain.sh

I get the following error

ERROR: Add /usr/local/pspdev/bin to your path before continuing.
../depends/check-pspdev.sh: Failed.

I have set

export PSPDEV=/usr/local/pspdev
export PATH=$PATH:$PSPDEV/bin

in .bashrc, but it still says I need to add that to my path. I am still fairly new to Linux, so I'm not sure exactly what that means, or how to fix it. Can anyone tell me what is going wrong?

[Archaemic]

Restart your terminal.

[a_noob]

also you can try ~/.bash_profile (incase you may have a different version of bash installed)

[FreePlay]

Also try the file ".profile". instead of ".bashrc".

[sanctifi3d]

download this http://forum.psp.free.fr/public/psp/...gcc410.tar.bz2
its a pre-compiled version of the PSP SDK (with gcc-410) by zx81
its about 50mb

then extract then move the folders of pspdev(bin,include,info,l ib, etc etc) folder to your /usr/local/

done.

[a_noob]

thats most likely assuming you have a intel based computer. You might want to read what architecture its compiled for before downloading. Plus comiling the toolchain yourself is always the best bet and you get the newest version.

[Waynhim]

When I had those lines in .bash_profile I still got the error I had before putting them anywhere,
ERROR: Set $PSPDEV before continuing.
../depends/check-pspdev.sh: Failed.
When I put them in .bashrc, the error changed to the error from my previous post, and putting them in .profile didn't change the error.

Still being fairly new to linux I didn't know what was going on there, so I decided to figure out what those commands do. Now that I know what export actually does I checked to see what it output when I used just export, and /usr/local/pspdev/bin is in my path, so why is it failing.

[FaT3oYCG]

in the terminal you have to be the admin

type

sudo -nautilus

that will give you admin rights then do it

i think that is the command, but i do know for sure that it is nautilus that you need so do some searching for that

[sanctifi3d]

Originally Posted by FaT3oYCG

in the terminal you have to be the admin

type

sudo -nautilus

that will give you admin rights then do it

i think that is the command, but i do know for sure that it is nautilus that you need so do some searching for that

its

nautilus

no need for sudo

[Waynhim]

I've got it now, between my last post and now I went to a class where the professor is a Linux guru, presented the situation to him and he figured it out for me. If I'd remembered nautilus though that would've simplified the situation. I didn't realize that

sudo ./toolchain.sh

would change the PATH.

It's taking longer to run than I thought it would. At this rate I might have to leave my laptop in here during the next class so it can keep running.

[placo23]

try ./toolchain_sudo.sh

I'm sure that will do.

cheers

[ifiwere1337]

i have a question, does the toolchain take as long as it does on windows to install?

[Archaemic]

No, it doesn't take nearly as long to install on Linux.

[FaT3oYCG]

mine took like 4 hours on windows and 30 mins on linux, same pc and everything

[ifiwere1337]

Originally Posted by FaT3oYCG

mine took like 4 hours on windows and 30 mins on linux, same pc and everything

thanks for the answer, i wondered when i installed and it took only 30 min, i thought i did it wrong

[FreePlay]

I installed the toolchain on andLinux (Ubuntu running under a Linux kernel in Windows) and it was about four times as fast as in Cygwin. Pretty sad...

[TurtlesPwn]

1.86ghz Pentium M (lol laptop I got right before c2ds became standard) with 1gb RAM takes about 5 hours on Cygwin and about an hour on ubuntu (and WELL over half that time is downloading stuff, my internet is rather slow)

[Archaemic]

Apparently the reason Cygwin is so slow is because there's a lot of overhead in starting processes, which isn't really all that surprising. This affects the toolchain a lot because the compilation consists of scores of small programs being launched continuously, so a good deal is lost to this overhead. Or at least that's what I heard.

[a_noob]

its faster to just run linux in a virtual pc , but truely if you are gonna dev just install *nix.

[sanctifi3d]

Originally Posted by a_noob

but truely if you are gonna dev just install *nix.

totally agree

in my view
dev=*nix
multimedia/gfx=mac
trouble=windoze..

:P

[ifiwere1337]

Originally Posted by sanctifi3d

totally agree

in my view
dev=*nix
multimedia/gfx=mac
trouble=windoze..

:P

well said