Populate the target and boot the image

1. Open a terminal

Open a terminal on the host computer.

Ubuntu terminal

All the commands preceded by have to be executed from the host computer terminal.

• Create your STM32MPU workspace directory on your host computer

 mkdir $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace
 cd $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace

2. Check the host computer Internet access

• An Internet access through http and https protocols must be provided.

The command below allows to check for Internet access through http/https protocols:

 wget -q www.google.com && echo "Internet access over HTTP/HTTPS is OK !" || echo "No internet access over HTTP/HTTPS ! You may need to set up a proxy."

If an 'OK' message is returned, the network is well configured.
In such case, skip the rest of this section.

Any other likely situation indicates the need for a proxy for http/https protocols.
The best solution to set a proxy for http/https protocols is via the shell variables http_proxy and https_proxy:

 export http_proxy=http://<MyProxyLogin>:<MyProxyPassword>@<MyProxyServerUrl>:<MyProxyPort>
 export https_proxy=http://<MyProxyLogin>:<MyProxyPassword>@<MyProxyServerUrl>:<MyProxyPort>

Check again the Internet access with command:

 wget -q www.google.com && echo "Internet access over HTTP/HTTPS is OK !" || echo "No internet access over HTTP/HTTPS ! You may need to set up a proxy."

3. Install the tools

3.1. STM32CubeProgrammer

Information

STM32CubeProgrammer requires 1.8 version or later of the Java platfrom. sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre sudo update-alternatives --config java Select the java-8-openjdk configuration.

• Create your STM32MPU tools directory on your host computer

 mkdir $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MPU-Tools
 mkdir $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MPU-Tools/STM32CubeProgrammer-2.0.0

• Create a temporary directory in your STM32MPU workspace

 mkdir $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/tmp

• Download STM32CubeProgrammer v2.0.0 in the following directory
  $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/tmp
• Uncompress the archive file to get the STM32CubeProgrammer installers

 cd $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/tmp
 unzip SetupSTM32CubeProgrammer.zip

• Execute the Linux installer, which guides you through the installation process. Select "$HOME/STM32MPU-Tools/STM32CubeProgrammer-2.0.0" as the installation directory, when it's requested by the installer

 ./SetupSTM32CubeProgrammer-2.0.0.linux

Splash screen

File:STM32CubeProgrammer installation welcome.png

Welcome page

File:STM32CubeProgrammer installation path.png

Installation path

• Add the STM32CubeProgrammer binary path to your PATH environment variable

export PATH=$HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MPU-Tools/STM32CubeProgrammer-2.0.0/bin:$PATH

• Check that the STM32CubeProgrammer tool is properly installed and accessible

 STM32_Programmer_CLI --h
     -------------------------------------------------------------------
                       STM32CubeProgrammer v2.0.0                  
     -------------------------------------------------------------------

3.2. USB serial link

• Install the libusb on your host computer

 sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0

• To allow STM32CubeProgrammer to access the USB port through low-level commands, proceed as follows

 cd $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MPU-Tools/STM32CubeProgrammer-2.0.0/Drivers/rules
 sudo cp *.* /etc/udev/rules.d/

4. Download the image

• Create your STM32MP15 Starter Package directory on your host computer

 mkdir $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v1.0.0
 mkdir $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v1.0.0/Starter-Package
 cd $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v1.0.0/Starter-Package

• Download the STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v1.0.0 Starter Package to the following directory:
  $HOME/STM32MPU_workspace/STM32MP15-Ecosystem-v1.0.0/Starter-Package
• Uncompress the tarball file to get the binaries for the different partitions of the image, and the Flash layout files

 tar xvf en.FLASH-stm32mp1-openstlinux-4.19-thud-mp1-19-02-20.tar.xz