Inside the lxc container, let’s switch to the “ubuntu” user, and clone my git repo:
root@my-ubuntu:~# su -l ubuntu
ubuntu@my-ubuntu:~$ git clone https://github.com/alecu/minecraft-minimu9.git
Cloning into 'minecraft-minimu9'...
remote: Counting objects: 30, done.
remote: Total 30 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 30
Unpacking objects: 100% (30/30), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
ubuntu@my-ubuntu:~$ cd minecraft-minimu9
ubuntu@my-ubuntu:~/minecraft-minimu9$ The repository contains a snapcraft.yaml file, that tells snapcraft what steps are needed to build it. Let’s try that:
ubuntu@my-ubuntu:~/minecraft-minimu9$ snapcraft
Pulling glue
Building glue
cp --preserve=all -R html /home/ubuntu/minecraft-minimu9/parts/glue/install/html
Staging glue
Snapping glue
Pulling spjs
env GOPATH=/home/ubuntu/minecraft-minimu9/parts/spjs/build go get -t -d github.com/alecu/serial-port-json-server
Building spjs
env GOPATH=/home/ubuntu/minecraft-minimu9/parts/spjs/build go build github.com/alecu/serial-port-json-server
env GOPATH=/home/ubuntu/minecraft-minimu9/parts/spjs/build go install github.com/alecu/serial-port-json-server
env GOPATH=/home/ubuntu/minecraft-minimu9/parts/spjs/build cp -a /home/ubuntu/minecraft-minimu9/parts/spjs/build/bin /home/ubuntu/minecraft-minimu9/parts/spjs/install
Staging spjs
Snapping spjs
Generated 'minecraft-minimu9_1_armhf.snap' snap
ubuntu@my-ubuntu:~/minecraft-minimu9$ This will produce a minecraft-minimu9_1_armhf.snap file that we can install in the base system, like this:
(RaspberryPi2)ubuntu@localhost:~$ sudo snappy install --allow-unauthenticated \ ~/my-ubuntu-home/minecraft-minimu9/minecraft-minimu9_1_armhf.snap
Installing /home/ubuntu/my-ubuntu-home/minecraft-minimu9/minecraft-minimu9_1_armhf.snap
2015/11/14 04:51:20.191703 verify.go:85: Signature check failed, but installing anyway as requested
Name Date Version Developer
ubuntu-core 2015-11-13 3 ubuntu
lxd 2015-11-14 0.21-1 stgraber
minecraft-minimu9 2015-11-14 IFTYLfgMVOad sideload
webdm 2015-11-13 0.9.4 canonical
pi2 2015-11-13 0.16 canonical
(RaspberryPi2)ubuntu@localhost:~$ Since it’s trying to access the serial port, and everything under snappy runs confined, we can give access to the package like this:
(RaspberryPi2)ubuntu@localhost:~$ sudo snappy hw-assign minecraft-minimu9.sideload \ /dev/ttyACM0
'minecraft-minimu9.sideload' is now allowed to access '/dev/ttyACM0'
(RaspberryPi2)ubuntu@localhost:~$ And with that we have our snap package installed, running and able to access the hardware port.
We can try our demo by pointing a browser at port 8989 of the raspbi’s IP address, eg: http://192.168.1.131:8989/ and we should see something like this:
This post is part 4 in a series of posts on how to get started writting IoT apps for the snappy Ubuntu Core.