Comment 38 for bug 898003

This was VERY helpful! Thanks!

But why must that be that freaky?
I love OSS, really! - but sometimes I doubt, if anybody understands that
things like "./autogen.sh" etc. aren't suitable for common people?!
Upstream, "apt-get install usbip" would be great, otherwise nobody could
really use it.

just my 5 ct,
Michael

On 10.11.2015 22:07, Mauro wrote:
> For Trusty, you must compile usbip from sources yourself. I did it a
> couple of times in Linux Mint 17 (based on Trusty) and Debian 7. Here is
> what I ended up with:
>
> On the Linux server that will share the USB devices or on any Linux client that will need to access shared devices on other servers:
> - download the kernel source: apt-get install linux-source-3.13.0 (replace with your desired kernel version)
> - extract the usbip sources from the kernel source tarball (e.g.: /usr/src/linux-source-3.13.0.tar.bz2): they should be under drivers/staging/usbip (or something like that); for instance, extract them to /root/usbip
> - find where the file usb.ids from usbutils package is located in your system: apt-file search usb.ids (in my case it's at /usr/share/misc/usb.ids)
> - enter /root/usbip/userspace to build the userspace tools:
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure --with-usbids-dir=/usr/share/misc
> make install
> (replace the usb.ids path as needed)
> - if the build fails, you may need some additional libraries; take a look at the README file; for instance, I needed to install libtool (apt-get install libtool)
> - the executable files /usr/local/sbin/usbip and /usr/local/sbin/usbipd will be installed, as well as some libraries into /usr/local/lib
> - try to run usbip or usbipd to see if they complain about something; if they say some library is missing, try to launch them by preceding with a proper LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting; for instance, you may need to run usbip in this way:
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib; usbip
>
> Until now, we've compiled the userspace tools required to control usbip; then, we need to compile the kernel modules, too. The following is again needed on the Linux server that will share the USB devices:
> - the kernel headers are required:
> apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
> cd /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`
> make M=/root/usbip
> (replace the path after M= with the folder where you extracted the usbip sources in the previous steps)
> - the kernel modules will be installed in the usbip folder; to load them:
> modprobe usbip-core.ko
> modprobe usbip-host.ko
>
> After you've loaded the kernel modules, type:
> usbipd -D
>
> Then, you can start to use the usbip tool to list the attached USB
> modules and bind them.
>
> If you want to load the kernel modules automatically on system startup:
> sudo echo usbip-core >>/etc/modules
> sudo echo usbip-host >>/etc/modules
>
> If you want to start the usbipd daemon automatically on system startup, one way to achieve this is to edit /etc/rc.local and add the following line before the line with "exit 0":
> /usr/local/sbin/usbipd -D
> (remember the LD_LIBRARY_PATH thing, if you determined it's needed)
>
> Please note that if you plan to use Windows clients, you need to try the
> LATEST compiled binaries, otherwise they will fail to work. When I last
> used usbip, I had to use some binaries compiled by users posting on the
> usbip forum, because the one published on the usbip website were
> outdated and did not work. That's another huge problem with this tool, I
> think.
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>