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Aug 14 10

Installing Arduino on Ubuntu 10.4

by coycash

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 &

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Jul 23 10

Hello World!

by coycash

Welcome to my new site.