CCS/MSP432P401R: TI Cloud Agent on Linux

Max Kessler

Part Number: MSP432P401R

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

Hi,

I am running Arch Linux on my Laptop and tried installing TI Cloud Agent in order to use the CCS Cloud. However it did not work out of the box.

For example, when I tried "Target > Connect to COM port ..." I get prompted to install TI Cloud Agent. I did just that but it still didn't work. Upon investigation I found out that the desktop file that is installed has the following input

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/home/max/TICloudAgent/ticloudagent.bin %u
Name=TI Cloud Agent
Comment=TI Cloud Agent
Categories=Application
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/ticloudagent
NoDisplay=true

However, when I looked at the install directory I saw the following files

total 40M
drwxr-xr-x 2 max max 4,0K 30. Dez 16:29 install_scripts
drwxr-xr-x 4 max max 4,0K 30. Dez 16:29 resources
drwxr-xr-x 7 max max 4,0K 30. Dez 16:29 src
drwxr-xr-x 2 max max 4,0K 30. Dez 16:29 util
-rw-r--r-- 1 max max   52 30. Dez 16:29 config.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 max max 129K 13. Sep 14:13 eclipse-css-2.ico
-rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 1,6K 30. Dez 16:29 install.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 max max  34M 13. Sep 14:13 node
-rw-r--r-- 1 max max  280 30. Dez 16:29 node.bat
-rw------- 1 max max 1,7K 30. Dez 16:29 ticloudagent_install.log
-rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 1,4K 30. Dez 16:29 ticloudagent.sh
-rwx------ 1 max max 6,2M 30. Dez 16:29 uninstall
-rw------- 1 max max  19K 30. Dez 16:29 uninstall.dat

Thus I concluded, that the "Exec" parameter in the desktop file was wrong. I changed

Exec=/home/max/TICloudAgent/ticloudagent.bin %u

Exec=/home/max/TICloudAgent/ticloudagent.sh %u

and it worked. I suppose this is a bug?

Thanks for any help,

Max

over 6 years ago

0 JohnS over 6 years ago

TI__Guru**** 161615 points

Max,

It sure looks like a bug. I will follow up with the cloud agent developers to confirm. They are out until next week.

Regards,
John

0 JohnS over 6 years ago in reply to JohnS

TI__Guru**** 161615 points

Max,

I spoke with the team this morning and we have filed TICLD-2933 to track correcting this.

Thanks for reporting it.

Regards,
John

Happy New year

0 danishinnis over 6 years ago in reply to JohnS

TI__Mastermind 22060 points

Hi Max,
The TICloudAgent installer doesn't create any desktop shortcuts for linux. Is it possible you have a setting that auto generates desktop shortcuts?
Danish

0 Max Kessler over 6 years ago in reply to danishinnis

Prodigy 20 points

Hi Danish,

thanks for your answer. I'm pretty sure I don't have anything that autogenerates desktop files. The install.sh script that came with the cloud agent installer contains the following lines

typeset DESKTOP_FILE=/usr/share/applications/ticloudagent.desktop
pushd `dirname $0` > /dev/null
typeset SCRIPTPATH=`pwd`
popd > /dev/null

if [ "${1}" = "--install" ];
then
  
	echo "Install ${DESKTOP_FILE}"
	#remove the existing file
	rm -f ${DESKTOP_FILE}
	
	printf "[Desktop Entry]\n" >> ${DESKTOP_FILE}
	printf "Encoding=UTF-8\n" >> ${DESKTOP_FILE}
	printf "Version=1.0\n" >> ${DESKTOP_FILE}
	printf "Type=Application\n" >> ${DESKTOP_FILE}
	printf "Terminal=false\n" >> ${DESKTOP_FILE}

	printf "Exec=${SCRIPTPATH}/ticloudagent.bin %%u\n" >> ${DESKTOP_FILE}
	printf "Name=TI Cloud Agent\n" >> ${DESKTOP_FILE}
	printf "Comment=TI Cloud Agent\n" >> ${DESKTOP_FILE}
	printf "Categories=Application\n" >> ${DESKTOP_FILE}
	printf "MimeType=x-scheme-handler/ticloudagent\n" >> ${DESKTOP_FILE}
	printf "NoDisplay=true\n" >> ${DESKTOP_FILE}
	
	update-desktop-database
	
	${SCRIPTPATH}/install_scripts/install_drivers.sh
	
    exit 0
fi

To me it seems that this creates the desktop file that is used to launch TICloudAgent.

Max

0 danishinnis over 6 years ago in reply to Max Kessler

TI__Mastermind 22060 points

Duh, I should have searched in the scripts. Thank you. I'll take a look.

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