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<div class="title">Installing TinyOS 2.0</div>
-<div class="subtitle">Last updated 8 April 2007</div>
+<div class="subtitle">Last updated 1 May 2007</div>
<p>If you already have a 1.x tree or an existing 2.x tree, you are better off
following the <i>upgrade</i> instructions at
<h1>One-step Install with a Live CD</h1>
<p><A
- HREF="http://toilers.mines.edu/Public/XubunTOS/">Download a
- Linux live CD that has a TinyOS installation on it</A>. All you
+ HREF="http://toilers.mines.edu/Public/XubunTOS">Download a
+ Linux live CD that has a TinyOS installation on it</A>.
+ All you
need to do is download the CD image, burn it onto a CD, and
install from there. This saves you all of the complexities of
installation, and it's the recommended way to install
<p>Currently, the TinyOS Core Working Group supports TinyOS on two platforms: Cygwin (Windows)
and Linux. There have been some <A HREF="">successful efforts</A> to getting TinyOS environments working
on Mac OSX, but OSX is not supported by the Core WG.</p>
-
+
+<p>If you are running a version of Linux that supports Debian packages, then
+ you may want to use the TinyOS package repository. There is a <A HREF="http://www.tinyos.net/scoop/story/2007/3/1/142950/4912">story on www.tinyos.net</A>
+ that describes how to use it. If you do this, then you do not have to
+ install the instructions here, except that you will need to check
+ that your environment is set up correctly (the final step)</p>
+
<p>Installing a TinyOS enviromnent has five basic steps; Windows requires an extra step,
installing Cygwin, which is a UNIX-like environment. The steps are:</p>
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<td>TinyOS</td>
- <td><a href="http://www.tinyos.net/dist-2.0.0/tinyos/windows/tinyos-2.0.0-3.cygwin.noarch.rpm">tinyos-2.0.0-3.cygwin.noarch.rpm</a></td>
- <td><a href="http://www.tinyos.net/dist-2.0.0/tinyos/linux/tinyos-2.0.0-3.noarch.rpm">tinyos-2.0.0-3.noarch.rpm</a></td>
+ <td><a href="http://www.tinyos.net/dist-2.0.0/tinyos/windows/tinyos-2.0.1-5.cygwin.noarch.rpm">tinyos-2.0.1-5.cygwin.noarch.rpm</a></td>
+ <td><a href="http://www.tinyos.net/dist-2.0.0/tinyos/linux/tinyos-2.0.1-5.noarch.rpm">tinyos-2.0.1-5.noarch.rpm</a></td>
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