Setting up the system

Before starting, we must set up our embedded board by installing all the going to use the BeagleBone Black to test the code; however, as already stated earlier, every command or program used here can be used indifferently on the other embedded boards too.

First of all, we have to install the command-line interpreter for the PHP scripting language and the related plugin for the Apache web server. We can do it using the usual aptitude command, as follows:

root@bbb:~# aptitude install php5-cli libapache2-mod-php5

Then, a package for the Python interpreter proves to be useful in creating daemons:

root@bbb:~# aptitude install python-daemon

Then, we have to install the following packages for xinetd:

root@bbb:~# aptitude install xinetd telnet

For MySQL, we need the following packages:

root@bbb:~# aptitude install mysql-client mysql-server

Note

During the installation of the preceding MySQL packages, the system should ask for an administrative root user. This is not the system...