Setting up a Movesense development environment on Linux - movesense

Question

I followed an instruction to set up a Movesense development environment, "Manual setup on Linux", from Suunto / Movesense-community / Movesense-device-lib, README.md
However, I got stuck at sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-embedded:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gcc-arm-embedded
How can I move forward?
I used Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) as a guest OS.

Answer 1

Try adding the repository:
sudo apt-get remove gcc-arm-none-eabi gdb-arm-none-eabi binutils-arm-none-eabi
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-gcc-arm-embedded/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Answer 2

I downloaded it directly from ARM IIRC:
https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm/downloads
Following the instructions under "GNU/Linux" in the "GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain" section of
https://gnu-mcu-eclipse.github.io/toolchain/arm/install/#gnu-arm-embedded-toolchain
Summarized:
// Get some support dependencies for 32 bit running on 64-bit machines
// Check toolchain README for actual list.
$ sudo apt-get -y install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0
// Install the toolchain
$ mkdir -p "${HOME}"/opt
$ cd "${HOME}"/opt
$ tar xjf ~/Downloads/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-linux.tar.bz2
$ chmod -R -w "${HOME}"/opt/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major
You will likely have to modify some of the build files in the Movesense project to point to this location for it to build.
The following might also be helpful: How to install a functional ARM cross-GCC toolchain on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)
I had some trouble installing it on a Windows machine and tried out Vagrant. This makes the development environment highly movable and in sync if you have multiple developers working on the project.