Many of the wiki pages here require installation of a common set of tools to execute scripts for aircraft tweaking. I have tried to pull all of the tool instructions in one place to make this easier.

These instructions were developed by an OSX user. Others have contributed windows instructions. More recently, there is an OSX auto installer. This will be progressively modified to support Linux and perhaps windows installs.

The list of tools is growing. I've added a single line installer script for OSX users. This pulls down the installer from git hub, and installs all required components automagically. The script will be updated over time to support RPM and APT package management, but its not there yet. Just paste this one command into your terminal window, and it will do the magic for you.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/czokie/dji-rev-toolchain/master/toolchain.sh | bash

There is one other component required if you want to build APK files. Download jdk (java development kit) from here and install

NOTE: If you run this auto install command on OSX, you can skip the rest. Its all done automatically for you.

You may have some or all of these components already… so skip anything that is not applicable. These steps are based on an OSX install.

NOTE: The main difference between linux and OSX is where you do your work. To make it easy on linux, you could just create a directory in the same place that the OSX instructions use… or change the instructions below. Whatever you prefer. Windows users need to install python from here first: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2713/

NOTE: The instructions here for OSX talk about two versions of python. The instructions assume we will keep the Apple provided Python 2.x, and install 3.x via home-brew.

In the headings for each tool, I will list in brackets what the tool is used for to help understand why it is needed. If a tool is not specific for a particular os, it is needed for all.

mkdir ~/Documents

Home brew is designed to help with package management for OSX users, kind of like yum or apt-get. This guide is written with OSX in mind. You can chose to use this approach for installing some of the major components - or use equivalent commands with the regular package manager you use on your variation of Linux.

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install)"

brew install python3

windows users can get away with python 2.x - its here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2713/

pip3 comes with python 3. However, python 2.x that comes as part of OSX does not contain PIP. Install it using this command

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python

windows users can install it using python and this script: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

python get-pip.py

sudo pip install pathlib

windows users, omit the sudo

 pip install pathlib

sudo pip install pyusb

windows users omit the sudo

 pip install pyusb

sudo pip3 install pycrypto

brew install libusb

brew cask install android-platform-tools

windows users can use the file from xda-developer forums:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979

Download the installer, and answer yes to all the prompts to install the adb toolchain in windows.

sudo gem install colorize

mkdir -p ~/Documents/tools
cd ~/Documents/tools
curl -O https://github.com/appium/sign/raw/master/dist/sign.jar
curl -O https://bitbucket.org/iBotPeaches/apktool/downloads/apktool_2.2.3.jar
mv apktool_2.2.3.jar apktool.jar

This is only required for deejayeye-modder - Not needed for duml or Redherring

brew install dialog

This is only required for deejayeye-modder - Not needed for dual or Redherring

Download jdk (java development kit) from here and install

To get access to firmware, you will need git, plus lfs. Follow the directions here to install lfs. OSX specific instructions are below.

brew update
brew install git-lfs
git lfs install

sudo pip install pyserial

windows users can type this command too.

Now you're all set up to flash and root your DJI product.

brew install wget

sudo pip install pkcs7

sudo gem install minitar

sudo gem install serialport

sudo gem install highline