by Raspberry Pi is a great single board computer and can be used as a gateway for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Installing, Contiki repositories in raspberry pi could be a little tricky but this tutorial will try to simplify the process. This tutorial assumes that you have Raspian OS installed in your system.
Step 1: Open your terminal by 
or press Ctrl+Alt+T
Step 2: Run the following two commands in your terminal. Update and Upgrade your Raspberry Pi. This makes sure that you have all basic libraries and repositories updated.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 3: Download the Contiki-3.0 or the Contiki-2.7 file from Github. We will be using Contiki-3.0
wget https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki/archive/3.0.zip
Step 4: Wait for some time and after the download completes. Unzip the downloaded file using the command
unzip contiki-3.0.zip
Step 5: For Tmote (Telos B) Devices. Install the following libraries
sudo apt-get install build-essential binutils-msp430 gcc-msp430 msp430-libc msp430mcu mspdebug
Step 6: For OpenMote Devices. Install these libraries
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi gdb-arm-none-eabi
Step 7: For running Cooja you would need to follow Step 5 & 6 and additionally run this command
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jre ant libncurses5-dev
Optional Step: For 64-bit virtual machine you might need this command to avoid issues with
sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5
That’s it! Enjoy 🙂
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Nice article.
Which version of Contiki is stable? 3.0 or 2.7?
Contiki 2.7 is much more stable compared to 3.0 but I would suggest carefully going through the Contiki Repo before you choose a version for your projects.