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I'm working with an embedded board from TI for my company. I have some linux experience, but not enough for my to figure out the best way to tackle this problem. I normally just do hardware system designs, but got pushed into the software hotseat.

The server has a stripped down version of linux installed onto an SD card. The version needs to be kept the way it is currently, as we are still testing the board. Ultimately, I am trying to get an apache server running on the system to give remote web access. To get apache installed.

To get apache installed, I'm under the assumption that I need to have make installed for the compile. And in order for me to get make installed, I have no idea what I need.

I'm not sure the best step to take to get them installed as I would normally use yum, apt-get, or rpm to update the system.

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Exactly which embedded device are you running Linux on? – Michael Hampton Jul 12 '12 at 22:50
What is the architecture? x86, ARM, ...? – Andrew Jul 12 '12 at 23:49
Its a davinci DSP using arm. The kernel version is 2.6.37. The board itself is the Texas Instruments 816x/389X EVM. – pr- Jul 13 '12 at 16:00

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Well considering one of the packages that you're attempting to get is yum, you can use that as your package manager and get the remainder of your software down that avenue.

Here's the direct download for the yum source along with instructions on how to install: http://yum.baseurl.org/

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I don't think he wants to install yum. He was using that as an example of a package manager that he would have used from a bigger distro. – silmaril8n Jul 12 '12 at 21:47
Ah my bad, I had read it differently before it was updated. In that case, installing from source still remains the best solution in my eyes. – Linztm Jul 13 '12 at 1:50

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