18.04 Bionic Beaver release, Wishlist

[DIY DSP]

Over at: https://answers.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+question/665673

a developer requested a ping when 18.04 Bio Beaver is released. It was released on April 26, 2018 (at least for Ubuntu Studio). I believe this is the proper time for the ping!

I've just gone to try to install it, command line is below.

Thank you very much.

diydsp@Zillini:~/$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-gcc-arm-embedded/ppa
 This PPA is an alternative to toolchain released at https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded. The source codes for both are same. Currently supports Ubuntu 10.04/12.04/14.04/14.10 32 and 64 bit.

Detailed explanations to Launchpad PPA can be found at https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/. That website explains how a PPA is set up and how to add existing PPA and install software from it.

Here are quick steps to install toolchain from this PPA on Ubuntu before 14.04:

Step1: Inside Ubuntu, open a terminal and input
       "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-gcc-arm-embedded/ppa"

Step2: Continue to input
       "sudo apt-get update"

Step3: Continue to input to install toolchain
       "sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-embedded"

To remove installed toolchain, just input "sudo apt-get remove gnu-arm-embedded".
To update the toolchain, just repeat above step2 and step3.

If it reports error message of conflict to gcc-arm-none-eabi, which is likely if upgrading from 4.x to 5+, please uninstall it first with:
       "sudo apt-get remove gcc-arm-none-eabi"

Questions should be asked at https://answers.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded

Bug can be filed at https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+filebug. It is highly encouraged to ask question first before filing a bug.
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~team-gcc-arm-embedded/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Ign:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-gcc-arm-embedded/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Err:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-gcc-arm-embedded/ppa/ubuntu bionic Release
  404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-gcc-arm-embedded/ppa/ubuntu bionic Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

[Zoltán Vörös (zvoros)]

This bug report seems to have gone unnoticed. Is there a tentative release date for the toolchain? My project depends on it, and it would be great, if I didn't have to use hackish workarounds.

Thanks,
Zoltán

[Robby McKilliam (robby.mckilliam)]

We need this too. I'm not even sure what the hackish workarounds are. The problem is conflated by

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50151897/arm-gcc-conflicting-cpu-architectures

so the default

sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi

doesn't result in a working compiler/linker either.

[Mustafa Karatas (mstfkaratas)]

Hello are there any updates on this topic, it is good have this package in official repository for CI servers.

Best
Mustafa

[Thomas Preud'homme (thomas-preudhomme)]

I've just uploaded it. Give it 2 hours to build and it should be available.