Installing Paradrop on hardware

Paradrop is distributed as a “snap” or an application that runs on Snappy Ubuntu. You can run snappy on any x86 or armv7 board (Raspberry Pi Gen 2 or Beagleboard Black supported!)

To setup Paradrop you need to install snappy on your hardware of choice and then have snappy install paradrop. This is a temporary method until more robust installation tools are finished.

First flash the board with the snappy image, see Flashing real hardware.

Next install docker:

ssh into the router
sudo snappy install docker

From your development machine (because you cannot install unauthorized snaps internally, only using snappy-remote for now).

Next install a few required programs not in the Snappy package system yet:

wget https://paradrop.io/storage/snaps/dnsmasq_2.74_all.snap
snappy-remote --url=ssh://<ip>:8022 install dnsmasq*.snap

wget https://paradrop.io/storage/snaps/hostapd_2.4_all.snap
snappy-remote --url=ssh://<ip>:8022 install hostapd*.snap

Finally, install Paradrop, unfortunately this is not an officially supported Snappy package yet so it must be installed manually using snappy tools:

#From the Paradrop github repo:
cd paradrop
python setup.py bdist_egg -d ../buildenv
cd ..
[ ! -f snap/bin/pipework ] && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jpetazzo/pipework/3bccb3adefe81b6acd97c50cfc6cda11420be109/pipework -O snap/bin/pipework
chmod 755 snap/bin/pipework

rm -f snap/bin/pd

pex --disable-cache paradrop -o snap/bin/pd -m paradrop:main -f buildenv/
rm -rf *.egg-info

snappy build snap
snappy-remote --url=ssh://localhost:8022 install <snap-location>