Exploring Toaster

Toaster is a web interface for BitBake. The Yocto Project website describes it as follows:

"Toaster is an Application Programming Interface (API) and web-based interface to the OpenEmbedded build system, which uses BitBake. Currently, Toaster collects and presents information about your builds, which you can navigate and query using a web browser"

Installing the required packages for the host system

In order to use Toaster correctly on your preferred Linux distribution, you need to install Django and South:

$ sudo pip install django==1.6
$ sudo pip install South==0.8.4

Note

The pip command makes it easy to install Python modules, in the same way you install packages in a Linux distribution.

Running Toaster

Now that our system is ...

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