MCUXpresso on WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

brich · ‎04-07-2021

Is WSL2 supported using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? I would think so since Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is officially supported. Not sure how WSL2 makes things any different, but this is the installation error I get:

brad@BRADR:/mnt/c/Users/Brad/Downloads$ sudo ./mcuxpressoide-11.3.1_5262.x86_64.deb.bin
Verifying archive integrity...  100%   All good.
Uncompressing mcuxpressoide installer  100%
Installing...
(Reading database ... 67071 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack JLink_Linux_x86_64.deb ...
Removing /opt/SEGGER/JLink ...
Unpacking jlink (6.981) over (6.981) ...
Setting up jlink (6.981) ...
Failed to send reload request: No such file or directory
Selecting previously unselected package mcuxpressoide.
(Reading database ... 67071 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack mcuxpressoide-11.3.1_5262.x86_64.deb ...
Unpacking mcuxpressoide (11.3.1) ...
Setting up mcuxpressoide (11.3.1) ...
Failed to send reload request: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package mcuxpressoide (--install):
 installed mcuxpressoide package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mcuxpressoide
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mcuxpressoide (11.3.1) ...
Failed to send reload request: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package mcuxpressoide (--configure):
 installed mcuxpressoide package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mcuxpressoide
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

brich · ‎04-08-2021

I was able to get this to work by installing MCUXpresso after installing the full-blown desktop version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS in my WSL2.

I followed the steps outlined here:

https://gist.github.com/Ta180m/e1471413f62e3ed94e72001d42e77e22

One difference, I added "-ac" as an optional parameter to VcXsrv in "single window" mode. Not sure if it works in other modes, full screen etc. But this is how I was able to get it to work.

Once logged into the desktop with the same username and password I used to install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on WSL2, I proceeded through the normal install mechanism, and this time it installed. I'm guessing the reason for the failures before in command-line only mode had to do with some installation scripts failing to setup things like the desktop shortcuts.

All I needed was the tool to cleanly install, and now I'll be able to run command-line builds from within WSL using a bamboo remote build agent for our continuous integration builder. Hope this helps someone else who also may be having this problem!

Cheers,

Brad

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brich · ‎04-08-2021

I was able to get this to work by installing MCUXpresso after installing the full-blown desktop version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS in my WSL2.

I followed the steps outlined here:

https://gist.github.com/Ta180m/e1471413f62e3ed94e72001d42e77e22

One difference, I added "-ac" as an optional parameter to VcXsrv in "single window" mode. Not sure if it works in other modes, full screen etc. But this is how I was able to get it to work.

Once logged into the desktop with the same username and password I used to install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on WSL2, I proceeded through the normal install mechanism, and this time it installed. I'm guessing the reason for the failures before in command-line only mode had to do with some installation scripts failing to setup things like the desktop shortcuts.

All I needed was the tool to cleanly install, and now I'll be able to run command-line builds from within WSL using a bamboo remote build agent for our continuous integration builder. Hope this helps someone else who also may be having this problem!

Cheers,

Brad

brich · ‎04-07-2021

It appears others have the same issue:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64568606/problem-installing-mcuxpresso-under-wsl2-ubuntu

converse · ‎04-08-2021

It works on a proper Ubuntu installation - perhaps WSL2 is missing stuff...

Here is the (working) install log:

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing mcuxpressoide installer 100% 
Installing...
Selecting previously unselected package jlink.
(Reading database ... 228626 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack JLink_Linux_x86_64.deb ...
Removing /opt/SEGGER/JLink ...
/opt/SEGGER/JLink not found (OK)
Unpacking jlink (6.860) ...
Setting up jlink (6.860) ...
Selecting previously unselected package mcuxpressoide.
(Reading database ... 228981 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack mcuxpressoide-11.2.1_4149.x86_64.deb ...
Unpacking mcuxpressoide (11.2.1) ...
dpkg: mcuxpressoide: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
mcuxpressoide depends on libusb-1.0-0-dev.
mcuxpressoide depends on dfu-util; however:
Package dfu-util is not installed.

Setting up mcuxpressoide (11.2.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+18.04.20180207.2-0ubuntu2) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
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brich · ‎04-08-2021

Thanks! Yes you are correct, WSL is missing a critical thing... the ubuntu desktop. Even though I only needed the command-line versions of the tool installed, there's no way to do that by itself since only one installation executable is provided by NXP. The solution for me was to get a full blown ubuntu desktop running in WSL, and then installing the tool. Once installed, the command-line tools can be used without a desktop session.