The following will use monit as a concrete example, but similar steps will apply to most Linux applications. Step #2 - Download and compile the utility you want to turn into an ipk It assumes you have bootstrapped your Edison, logged in and are comfortable executing programs at the command prompt. This guide steps you through the process of creating a package that the opkg package manager can install on the Intel Edison. It is great, but pre-built packages (ipk) of many of your favourite open source tools don’t exist yet. The operating system the Edison ships with is ‘Yocto’, a linux distribution targeted at embedded systems. The only downside lies in the software ecosystem it is still pretty small. I think it is the most exciting hardware Intel has developed since my trusty old Pentium 200 MMX. I am completely besotted with the Intel Edison.
