Enquiry about porting Ubuntu on an ARM device

[Manik Taneja]

Fei,

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/Manik
 
> On Apr 16, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Fei Ma <fei.ma at samsung.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Ubuntu experts,
>  
> I'm writing this email to enquire some technical issues regarding porting Ubuntu to an ARM based device. Could any of you have some comments or suggestion on them? Many thanks!
>  
> 1. When installing snappycraft tool we have below error. Is there any way to solve it? Do we need to install Ubuntu 15.04 on our platform PC?
>  
> murphy at murphy-Samsung-DeskTop-System:~/src/ububtu_4_android$ <mailto:murphy at murphy-Samsung-DeskTop-System:~/src/ububtu_4_android$> sudo apt-get install snapcraft
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package snapcraft
> 
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/blob/1.x/docs/get-started.md <https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/blob/1.x/docs/get-started.md>

>  
> 2. When running the "ubuntu-device-flash" command we have below error. Is it OK to ignore the "show-image" parameter? Or is there any other way to finish this command without error?
>  
> murphy at murphy-Samsung-DeskTop-System:~/src/ububtu_4_android$ <mailto:murphy at murphy-Samsung-DeskTop-System:~/src/ububtu_4_android$> ubuntu-device-flash query --device generic_arm64 --show-image --channel ubuntu-core/15.04/edge | grep device-
> unknown flag `show-image’
> 3. We are really new to the Ubuntu porting procedure and found the porting guide(https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/porting/ <https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/porting/>) really too short to have a thorough understanding. 
> Is there any more material for us to begin with?
> 
We are working on updating the documentation for the upcoming series 16 release. Please stay tuned
to the mailers!
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>  
> Thanks & Regards,
> Fei Ma (马飞)
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