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Complete and Verify Deployment

Verify Real-time Linux Kernel

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The section is applicable to:

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Do the following to complete and verify ECI deployment:

  1. Reboot the target system, if not already done. When the system boots to the GRUB menu, there should be a menu entry for ECI at the top of the GRUB menu list. Select this menu entry, or wait five seconds for this menu entry to automatically boot.

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  2. Let the system boot normally.

    Note: If the system does not boot, then secure boot may be enabled in the BIOS. You may either disable secure boot in the BIOS, or sign the Linux kernel by completing section UEFI Secure Boot.

  3. Login to the system and verify that the ECI Linux* Intel LTS PREEMPT_RT kernel is active by running the command uname -a. The output of this command should contain the following based on which kernel was installed:

    • Linux Intel LTS PREEMPT_RT kernel: ...-intel-ese-standard-lts-rt+ #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT ...

    • Linux Intel LTS Xenomai Dovetail kernel: ...-intel-ese-standard-lts-dovetail+ #1 SMP PREEMPT ...

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Install ECI Packages from Repository

At this point, you should be able to install most ECI packages using the package manager (APT/DNF) on this target system. Deb packages are available for Debian* and Canonical Ubuntu*, while RPM packages are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux*. Click each tab below to learn more.

For a complete list of available ECI packages, refer to ECI Packages Lists.

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The following figure illustrates some of the meta-packages (high-level Deb packages) available for Debian* and Canonical Ubuntu*:

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Here are some meta-packages that you could start with:

Meta-package

Description

eci-realtime

Includes real-time optimization domain packages, such as benchmarks and Intel® Time Coordinated Computing.

eci-connectivity

Includes connectivity domain packages for Time Sensitive Networking and industrial fieldbuses, such as Intel® Edge Control Protocol Bridge, IEC-62541 OPC UA framework, and IEC-60802 TSN.

eci-softplc

Includes software PLC domain packages, such as CODESYS* IEC61131-3, IEC-61158 EtherCAT Master, IEC-61131-3 (part 1 & 2) Motion Control, and IEC-50325-4 CANopen.

For example, to install the eci-realtime meta-package, perform the following command:

$ sudo apt install eci-realtime

If you are installing any robotics related packages such as eci-robotics or eci-robotics-control, set up the Intel oneAPI and ROS2 APT repositories:

# download the key to system keyring
$ sudo -E wget -O- https://apt.repos.intel.com/intel-gpg-keys/GPG-PUB-KEY-INTEL-SW-PRODUCTS.PUB | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/oneapi-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null

# add signed entry to apt sources and configure the APT client to use Intel repository:
$ echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/oneapi-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.repos.intel.com/oneapi all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oneAPI.list

# download the key to system keyring
$ sudo -E wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null

# add signed entry to apt sources and configure the APT client to use ROS repository:
$ echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg] http://packages.ros.org/ros2/ubuntu $(source /etc/os-release && echo $VERSION_CODENAME) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros2.list

$ sudo apt update

Attention

If you are located in the People’s Republic of China, modify the /etc/hosts file to directly connect to the raw.githubusercontent server:

$ sudo bash -c "echo '185.199.108.133 raw.githubusercontent.com' >> /etc/hosts"

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