[sf-lug] Linux Mint arduino install issue - not able to update to newer version

[Shane Tzen]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Frantisek Apfelbeck <algoldor at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've downloaded the 1.0.5 version from arduino official page
>
> http://arduino.cc/en/main/software - for Linux 64 bit
>
> used tar to unpack it and interestingly when tried to install it by the
> usual ./config make etc. nothing happened
>
> "make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop." (just an
> example)
>
> and no readme file in the directory to check for installation procedures ...

Also, just looked at the download.  Appears to be a binary
distribution.  So you just run the `arduino` binary wherever you've
untarred it.