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

Tue Apr 1 22:12:52 PDT 2014

Or just edit the PATH variable to include the arduino directory.  I usually
do this in  my .profile file, or  since I already have a local bin
directory in my PATH, just put links into that for my local executables.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Frantisek Apfelbeck <algoldor at yahoo.com>wrote:

> It looks like that it was the 64 version versus 32 version issue. I've got
> the 32 bit version, extracted it, changed the privilege by chmod file and
> run the /.arduino and it started, showing the arduino 1.0.5 version. I've
> run a hello world sketch and it works fine.
>
> However if I try to call for arduino from the terminal, it gives me this:
>
> The program 'arduino' is currently not installed. You can install it by
> typing:
> sudo apt-get install arduino
>
> So the question now is how to "install" the arduino 1.0.5 version on my
> machine so I do not have to run it from the terminal as ./arduino every
> time, also I would like to get updates in the future.
>
> Thanks for info, I'm getting closer, no question about that :-)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck
>
>
> biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker
>
>
> http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org
>
>
> "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
>   On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 11:04 AM, Frantisek Apfelbeck <
> algoldor at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Hi Shane and all,
> Thanks for the info, I've tried some of it, still no resolve.
>
> I've again unpacked the tar file and run the arduino executable from
> terminal (well ~temporary/arduino/arduino-1.0.5/arduino - and clicked
> enter/execute) getting fallowing message after which the terminal did not
> respond and I had to ctrl-z the operation and kill it:
>
> temporary/arduino/arduino-1.0.5/arduino
> OpenJDK Client VM warning: You have loaded library
> /home/algoldor/temporary/arduino/arduino-1.0.5/lib/librxtxSerial.so which
> might have disabled stack guard. The VM will try to fix the stack guard now.
> It's highly recommended that you fix the library with 'execstack -c
> <libfile>', or link it with '-z noexecstack'.
> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
> /home/algoldor/temporary/arduino/arduino-1.0.5/lib/librxtxSerial.so:
> /home/algoldor/temporary/arduino/arduino-1.0.5/lib/librxtxSerial.so: wrong
> ELF class: ELFCLASS64 (Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch)
> thrown while loading gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
> /home/algoldor/temporary/arduino/arduino-1.0.5/lib/librxtxSerial.so:
> /home/algoldor/temporary/arduino/arduino-1.0.5/lib/librxtxSerial.so: wrong
> ELF class: ELFCLASS64 (Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(ClassLoader.java:1965)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1890)
>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1880)
>         at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:849)
>         at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1088)
>         at gnu.io.CommPortIdentifier.<clinit>(CommPortIdentifier.java:83)
>         at processing.app.Editor.populateSerialMenu(Editor.java:962)
>         at processing.app.Editor.buildToolsMenu(Editor.java:691)
>         at processing.app.Editor.buildMenuBar(Editor.java:476)
>         at processing.app.Editor.<init>(Editor.java:205)
>         at processing.app.Base.handleOpen(Base.java:705)
>         at processing.app.Base.handleOpen(Base.java:670)
>         at processing.app.Base.handleNew(Base.java:566)
>         at processing.app.Base.<init>(Base.java:306)
>         at processing.app.Base.main(Base.java:195)
>
> So I checked that no arduino was installed in /usr/share/arduino (no
> directory present) and tried the sudo aptitude install arduino. It
> installed the arduino, when run again it gave me arduino 1.0.1 version, so
> it doesn't seem to sort it out.
>
> I've removed it with the sudo aptitude remove command, checked it is clean
> and after that I've erased the previously extracted files and untarred
> again. I've refreshed my knowledge of "executing the binary files" which
> was very weak anyway (using generally apt-get install instead), however I
> was puzzled by the arduino file which is claiming to be shell script (which
> I remember to be the case from the past). Anyway I went forward and to be
> sure used
> $ sudo chmod +x arduino #being in the same directory
> $ sudo ./arduino
>
> and I got exactly the same output as copied above. I've ls
> /usr/share/arduino - nothing, no such file or directory.
>
> So that is my morning exercise so far, I'll try again today but I'm really
> getting short on ideas ... The only thing which comes to my mind is that I
> may have some issues with 64 bit architecture, so I will try to download
> the arduino 32 version 1.0.5.
>
> The good thing is that I'm definitely getting much better on my Linux
> skills lately, the bad one is that I really need to continue with the
> experimental incubator project for which it really looks like "late
> version" of arduino is needed.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> FAA
>
>
>
> Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck
>
>
> biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker
>
>
> http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org
>
>
> "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
>   On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 2:39 AM, Shane Tzen <shane at faultymonk.org>
> wrote:
>  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.
>
>
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