Aug 14 10
Installing Arduino on Ubuntu 10.4
There are a couple methods to install the Arduino IDE on Ubuntu 10.4. The first is a manual installation and the latter is an automated package install.
Method 1
1. Open a terminal and install some prerequisites:
> sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre avr-gcc-c++ avr-gcc avr-libc
2. Download the latest Arduino IDE. In this case the file is arduino-0018.tgz.
3. Open the terminal and browse to your download directory. Run the following command to decompress:
> tar xvzf arduino-0018.tgz
4. This gives you the file arduino-0018. Copy this wherever you’d like, in this case we’ll leave it in the download directory. Run the following commands to run the Arduino IDE:
> cd arduino-0018/ > ./arduino &
Jul 23 10
Hello World!
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