Hi,
I would like to build update artifacts on the RPi.
The 64 bit linux executable does not run on my RPi 3.
Can I build mender artifact for RPi? or is one already available?
Hi @AstralPresence we do have a debian package for the mender-artifact tool which is distributed for arm, see here for more information
Sorry for the noob question but how do I go about installing it> I’m currently running stretch.
apt update && apt install mender-artifact
should do the trick 
ah. i tried that first actually. But I had to add
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch main
to my /etc/apt/sources.list and do an apt-update
on stock raspbian, we only have
deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ stretch main contrib non-free rpi
and that doesnt contain the mender-artifact package.
Thanks a lot!
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Unfortunately I’m unable to use the debian package version (really 2.4) to create an application level update artifact. Any suggestions?
Could you be a bit more precise in what you are trying to do/doing? And what the errors are?
I have an application running on the RPi and I would like to create update artifacts for it on the rpi itself.
If you get the source code from our GitHub. Then you can build this (assuming you’ve got Go installed), with:
GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go build .
Which will get you a binary like:
➜ mender-artifact git:(6faf8d6) file mender-artifact
mender-artifact: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, Go BuildID=cYM1g4vGT7Foy5AQxHmi/1tOplowVyF0k4NhtKhpF/xzHS_m6LPs8YNtN0zRCi/ALHVROmh200u3-5tfzWI, not stripped