You can install the latest release (1.4.0) of the newt tool from a Debian binary package (amd64). You can also download and build the latest release version of newt from source.
This page shows you how to:
Set up your computer to download Debian binary packages from the runtimeco APT repository.
Note: The key for signing the repository has changed. If you set up your computer before release 1.1.0, you will need to download and import the public key again.
Install the latest release version of newt from a Debian binary package. You can use apt-get to install the package or manually download and install the Debian binary package.
Download, build, and install the latest release version of newt from source.
If you are installing on an amd64 platform, we recommend that you install from the binary package.
See Installing Previous Releases of Newt to install an earlier version of newt.
Note: We have tested the newt tool binary and apt-get install from the runtimeco APT repository for Ubuntu version 1704. Earlier Ubuntu versions (for example: Ubuntu 14) may have incompatibility with the repository. You can manually download and install the Debian binary package.
Note: See Setting Up a Go Environment to Contribute to Newt and Newtmgr Tools if you want to:
The newt Debian packages are stored in a private APT repository on https://github/runtimeco/debian-mynewt. To use apt-get, you must set up the following on your computer to retrieve packages from the repository:
Note: You only need to perform this setup once on your computer. However, if you previously downloaded and imported the public key for the runtimeco APT repository, you will need to perform step 2 again as the key has changed.
Download the public key for the runtimeco apt repo (Note: There is a - after apt-key add):
$ wget -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/runtimeco/debian-mynewt/master/mynewt.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Add the repository for the binary and source packages to the mynewt.list apt source list file:
$ sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mynewt.list <<EOF deb [arch=amd64] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/runtimeco/debian-mynewt/master latest main EOF
W: Failed to fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/runtimeco/debian-mynewt/master/dists/latest/main/source/Sources HttpError404
You can use either apt-get to install the package, or manually download and install the Debian binary package.
Run the following commands to upgrade or install the latest version of newt:
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install newt
Note: If you encounter build errors (such as missing sys/mman.h), please make sure you have a 32-bit glibc:
$ sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
Download and install the package manually.
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/runtimeco/binary-releases/master/mynewt-newt-tools_1.4.0/newt_1.4.0-1_amd64.deb $ sudo dpkg -i newt_1.4.0-1_amd64.deb
If you are running Linux on a different architecture, you can build and install the latest release version of newt from source.
Note: newt 1.4.0 requires go version 1.10.3.
$ wget -P /tmp https://github.com/apache/mynewt-newt/archive/mynewt_1_4_0_tag.tar.gz $ tar -xzf /tmp/mynewt_1_4_0_tag.tar.gz
$ cd mynewt-newt-mynewt_1_4_0_tag $ ./build.sh $ rm /tmp/mynewt_1_4_0_tag.tar.gz
If you previously built newt from the master branch, you can move the binary to your $GOPATH/bin directory.
$ mv newt/newt $GOPATH/bin
If you are installing newt for the first time and do not have a Go workspace set up, you can move the binary to /usr/bin or a directory in your PATH:
$ mv newt/newt /usr/bin
$ which newt /usr/bin/newt $ newt version Apache Newt version: 1.4.0
Please use the newt help command, and specify the name of the command you want help for, for help on how to use a specific command
Usage: newt [flags] newt [command]
Examples: newt newt help [] For help on . If not specified, print this message.
Available Commands: build Build one or more targets clean Delete build artifacts for one or more targets create-image Add image header to target binary debug Open debugger session to target info Show project info install Install project dependencies load Load built target to board mfg Manufacturing flash image commands new Create a new project pkg Create and manage packages in the current workspace resign-image Re-sign an image. run build/create-image/download/debug size Size of target components sync Synchronize project dependencies target Commands to create, delete, configure, and query targets test Executes unit tests for one or more packages upgrade Upgrade project dependencies vals Display valid values for the specified element type(s) version Display the Newt version number
Flags: -h, --help Help for newt commands -j, --jobs int Number of concurrent build jobs (default 8) -l, --loglevel string Log level (default “WARN”) -o, --outfile string Filename to tee output to -q, --quiet Be quiet; only display error output -s, --silent Be silent; don't output anything -v, --verbose Enable verbose output when executing commands
Use “newt [command] --help” for more information about a command.
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