In the light of my future interaction with the Arduino Diecemilla board I installed their IDE based on processing.
Since installing the sources is sometimes just a pain to manage in linux distributions that become more and more “package” based I made a debian package and a RPM package that puts everything nicely in /usr/etc/arduino, takes care of the dependences in term of GCC-arm, java-jre, uisp and other miscellaneous requirements and finally adds a nice little link in the Programming menu of Gnome~.
Please do not hesitate to give feedback and contribute to improve those packages. It’s my first .deb package and i simply used “alien” to convert it to RPM.
If there is any violation of any license, please feel free to inform to about it too. I have included the sources in both packages and build the packages — as per my readings of arduino’s forums — to follow a LGPL license like the software itself.
Kevin Power | 18-May-09 at 10:16 pm | Permalink
Have you a update for the rpm package using the latest version .015
morgan | 19-May-09 at 11:55 am | Permalink
Dear Kevin,
Sorry I have not had the chance to upload those packages. I had only made them for a school project long long ago.
You may simply download the Arduino Package from http://www.arduino.cc/ and uncompress the archive, make the Arduino file executable (right-click, properties, make executable) and then when you double click it in your GUI interface it should be able to launch the Arduino software.
Make sure you have installed Java beforehand.
Hope that helps,