Install the CLI

Yocman runs on the machine where you run bitbake: a Linux workstation, a build server or a CI runner. It needs Python 3.12 or newer. Your build itself does not change: Yocman reads the build directory and, for fix, applies patches to your own layers after you confirm them.

With pipx (recommended)

pipx install yocman
yocman --version

pipx installs the CLI in its own environment and puts yocman on your PATH.

From a source checkout

git clone <repository> yocman && cd yocman
pipx install ./cli

Check the installation

yocman context

Run it from a shell where you sourced oe-init-build-env (or inside a project created with yocman init): it prints the release, machine, distro and layers it found, without any network call.

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