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tytower · Last edited by tytower on Thu 05 Jan 2012, 19:10; edited 2 times in total

As was the case in the past trying to get the Arduino IDE set up in Linux can be a nightmare of download and mismatch and directories not found etc

Below is how I did it

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

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tytower · Posted: Sat 08 Oct 2011, 18:10 Post subject:

Hmm I'd be a little careful with aarf's suggestions above. He makes the statement " if its avr download it" --Not so

Go to the Arduino.cc install page and follow through carefully
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/Linux

Here is a list of what I installed and mine is up and running in Puppy 5.28

binutils-avr_2.20-2
gcc-avr_4.3.4-1
avr-libc_1.6.7
jre-1.6.0-21-lucid
arduino-0022
libmpfr1ldbl_2.3.1.dfsg.1
libgmp3c2_4.3.2+dfsg

The last two from Ubuntu repo

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

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aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

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aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

moved

tytower · Posted: Sun 09 Oct 2011, 06:39 Post subject:

Continuing .... I suggest when you get the arduino window working you go to your Arduino directory and drag the arduino icon on to your desktop. It will then start up without the terminal behind it.. Much neater

I don't know how to make a pet but I'll go have a read and if I can understand how I'll make a pet for this.

EDIT err looks like too much messing about for me atm-dont have the time . Perhaps someone might have a go at it ?

Arduino is a little $5 chip that can be programmed to do amazing things by people who are just ordinary when it comes to electronics or C++ programming. Full startup kits cost $50 or so and with a breadboard you wire up various sensors and devices to it and the info you wish is sent to your computer screen via a USB lead. Many many programs are already written fo you and you download them for free and just plug em in and away you go.

http://www.arduino.cc/

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

Sorry for messing you thread. i will move the mess.

tytower · Posted: Mon 17 Oct 2011, 02:37 Post subject:

Thanks for moving that.

Now I have delved a little further and found this page for Compiling in Puppy
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Compiling

I'm downloading the sfs file from http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/puppy-5.2.8/lupu_devx_528-3.sfs atm and suspect some of the Arduino linux list above may not be needed
More on this as I experiment

tytower · Posted: Sat 05 Nov 2011, 18:38 Post subject:

I have also noted that the java sfs download and install sfs on boot seems to take care of the java side also.So you only need load the sfs file when you want to run Arduino

However I'm just messing with 5.3 Slacko (What a name?)
and am not getting the serial ports up right atm. Its almost running but there are a couple of dependencies missing

libmpc.so.2 libelf.so.0
these can be downloaded from slacko repository

And the choose port and choose board don't come up and it cant compile cause it cant find avr-gcc

Nothing is running right yet
Slacko stinks !

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 4629 Location: World_Hub

Ty, aboard 528 grab libmpc2 and libelfg0- try again..

To deal with gcc-avr, add it to your PATH variable..

*You'll need this if choosing the bashrc method..

tytower · Posted: Tue 08 Nov 2011, 07:19 Post subject:

Yeh thanks I got those already from

tytower · Posted: Wed 09 Nov 2011, 17:56 Post subject:

Been looking deeper into this issue.

Its not the path that I can see
It installs to a directory "avr" in the /usr dir.
So to be sure I adjusted my Path to include /avr /avr/bin /avr/lib avr/includes.

"Env" confirms that, so its looking in all those areas to find what it seeks to no avail.

Anyone have any other ideas ? The window loads perfectly except under tools there are no Serial Ports , no Processors and no bootloaders and compiling a simple program gives the above errors in red ?

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 4629 Location: World_Hub

Ty, before I say I'm out (for lack of a device to mess with)- which set of distro pkgs did you install.. these?

tytower · Posted: Thu 10 Nov 2011, 03:47 Post subject:

I still have it running flawlessly on a 5.28 USB. I just want to get it up on 5.3

I did the same as my previous post for 5.28 except with latest
binutils-avr_2.21
gcc-avr_4.5.3
avr-libc_1.6.7
jre-1.7.0-20110811 which is extra SFS installed by sfs-load
arduino-0022
libmpfr1ldbl_2.3.1.dfsg.1
libgmp3c2_4.3.2+dfsg
libmpc-0.8.2

and the two files mentioned above .
libmpc.so.2 libelf.so.0 but I think these are not needed when I find the fault

aarf seems to get himself in an almighty mess and that's what all the deleted posts are in this thread. What he has on his thread now seems to be taken from mine. He says things like "if its avr download it " and he does that and downloads "dude" I noticed too but "dude" comes down with Arduino 0022 so that's not necessary- he's very confused and writing how-to's ?

Now I'm going to start again and wipe this particular USB stick because I think it has errors. I'll post back when I set up the new stuff

Don't understand what you mean by "for lack of a device to mess with" ?
Don't have arduino or dont have linux box?