IoTGateway/AWS/Greengrass

This article is written based on AWS (Amazon Web Services) Greengrass 1.0.0, and the target device is Advantech RSB-4760 (Qualcomm APQ8016 platform).

Set Up Environment

This section is referred to the AWS Greengrass document and AWS CLI document.

Debian 9 (Stretch)

1. Add ggc_user and ggc_group using the following commands:

sudo useradd ggc_user
sudo groupadd ggc_group

2. Install missing dependencies using the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sqlite3

3. Set up cgroups

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tianon/cgroupfs-mount/master/cgroupfs-mount
chmod 777 cgroupfs-mount
sudo bash ./cgroupfs-mount

4. Install Pip

curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py --user  

# Add an export command to your profile script, e.g. ~/.profile
export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH

# Load the profile into your current session
source ~/.profile

# Verify that pip is installed correctly
pip --version

5. Installing the AWS CLI with Pip

pip install awscli --upgrade --user

# Verify that the AWS CLI installed correctly
aws --version