You want to flash a Samsung Galaxy Android device.
You’ll need heimdall.
It’s not available as a package for Centos7, so you’ll need to compile it.
Expanded instructions
It uses cmake, which I’d not tripped over before, and the build process is a good deal messier than I expected. As in literally, it leaves stuff all over the place.
The live git repo is now in GitLab, and the procedure for linux, slightly expanded (with help from some other docs) is:
git checkout https://gitlab.com/BenjaminDobell/Heimdall.git cd Heimdall # now verbatim from the readme mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. make # and now the rest cd .. sudo cp bin/heimdall /usr/local/bin/ sudo cp bin/heimdall-frontend /usr/local/bin/ sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/heimdall /usr/local/bin/heimdall-frontend
The ‘..’ looks slightly odd, as though the rest of the parameters are missing. What it actually means is .. you created a build sub directory amongst the source code, and that parameter directs cmake to locate the source code.
I did it slightly differently. I’m doing this all with Puppet, and the installation of dependencies and the cmake/make/cp is done with a script.
cd /usr/local/src mkdir heimdall cd heimdall git checkout https://gitlab.com/BenjaminDobell/Heimdall.git git mkdir build chown nobody:nobody ./ build cd build sudo -u nobody cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release /usr/local/src/heimdall/git sudo -u nobody make
cmake uses ../ which is why the /usr/local/source/heimdall directory needs to be writable by nobody.
Otherwise:
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeDetermineSystem.cmake:170 (file): file Internal CMake error when trying to open file: /usr/local/src/heimdall/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log for writing. Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:7 (project) [....] -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! CMake Error: Cannot open file for write: /usr/local/src/heimdall/CMakeCache.txt.tmp CMake Error: : System Error: Permission denied CMake Error: Unable to open cache file for save. /usr/local/src/heimdall/CMakeCache.txt CMake Error: : System Error: Permission denied
You end up with:
heimdall/git/.git heimdall/git/<etc> heimdall/CMakeFiles/ # created by cmake heimdall/build/bin/ # with the binaries in heimdall/build/CMakeCache.txt heimdall/build/CMakeFiles heimdall/build/cmake_install.cmake heimdall/build/heimdall/ heimdall/build/heimdall-frontend/ heimdall/build/libpit/ heimdall/build/Makefile
My reason for separating build working space from the git repo is partly cleanliness, and partly that it makes it easier to clean up bits and get Puppet to redeploy them. If the git repo needs downloading again:
rm -rf git ; puppet agent --test
If the build is misbehaving:
rm -rf build CMakeFiles ; puppet agent --test
Also, the master can be pulled to pick up more recent code without stuff that’s not in .gitignore (CMakeFiles/ – that’s you) causing it to fail.
Dependencies
Because this is what we live for in Linux land.
Some errors first, because let’s face it, thats probably how you got here.
- install libusbx, libusbx-devel not libusb, libusb-devel, otherwise:
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:108 (message): Could NOT find libusb (missing: LIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIR) Call Stack (most recent call first): /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:315 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE) cmake/Findlibusb.cmake:30 (find_package_handle_standard_args) heimdall/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package)
- install qt5-qtbase-devel, otherwise:
CMake Error at heimdall-frontend/CMakeLists.txt:11 (find_package):
By not providing "FindQt5Widgets.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
"Qt5Widgets", but CMake did not find one.
Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5Widgets" with
any of the following names:
Qt5WidgetsConfig.cmake
qt5widgets-config.cmake
Add the installation prefix of "Qt5Widgets" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"Qt5Widgets_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
"Qt5Widgets" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
been installed.
My full set of dependencies is as follows.
Apart from compilers etc, I only specify installing the -devel packages.
- The -devel packages bring in the actual library packages (ie non -devel packages) as dependencies, if you don’t have them installed.
- My build script uninstalls components required for compiling afterwards; cleanliness reason – I don’t need them once compiling is done. As [1] handles the library packages etc., they’re not listed.
- The only package listed here which I wouldn’t expect to remove after compiling is make. My minimal install had it already.
- It’s possible all the compilers etc. aren’t needed, but the only instructions I could find were even broader (like: install the development tools group)
- I didn’t find these the hard way; they’re mostly what got dragged in by the packages installed for Fedora and / or generic Linux here. Most are probably for the GUI binary which I don’t plan to use anyway!
yum install zlib-devel qt-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
mesa-libEGL-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-khr-devel libxcb-devel \
libuuid-devel libpng-devel libglvnd-devel libglvnd-core-devel \
libdrm-devel libXxf86vm-devel libXv-devel libXt-devel libXrender-devel \
libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel libXi-devel libXft-devel \
libXfixes-devel libXext-devel libXdamage-devel libXcursor-devel \
libXau-devel libX11-devel libSM-devel libICE-devel freetype-devel \
fontconfig-devel expat-devel qt5-qtbase-devel glibc-devel \
libstdc++-devel libusbx-devel zlib-devel kernel-headers make \
cmake libtool gcc gcc-c++ cpp glibc-headers automake autoconf
Aside: when you’ve found that at a pwned PHP forum server was able to compile code to exploit a root shell vulnerability in the kernel, it makes you think about why you want to remove compilers once you’re done with them.
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