From George Smart's Wiki

This page just provides a few links and tips for anyone looking to get started with Contiki. Firstly, Contiki provides an instant environment which can be booted with a virtual machine and used. I wanted to have my environment run natively so I set about trying to work it out using Ubuntu. This process describes Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS.

• I followed this page as a basic set of instructions:

http://www.sics.se/contiki/wiki/index.php/Instant_Contiki_Install_Scripts

• I used the toolchain from this page, and installed via PPA

https://launchpad.net/~cprov/+archive/msp430

• This page may also be of interest

http://recolog.blogspot.com/2010/06/installing-contiki-and-cooja-simulator.html

Shortcuts & Links

#Sourcing the tinyos environment variable setup script
source /opt/tinyos-2.1.1/tinyos.sh

#Setting up Contiki links
echo -n "Setting up for Contiki 2.5: "
alias phd='cd /home/george/Work/PhD/'
alias contiki='cd /home/george/Work/PhD/Contiki/'
alias motelisten='/home/george/contiki/tools/sky/serialdump-linux -b115200'
echo "OK"