Arduino Installation Guide for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

Question

I'm following an installation guide for Arduino. I have Arduino UNO rev3 and ubuntu 64bit

The guide refers to Synaptic Package manager to install software. But it doesn't seem to be available in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.

Should I install the list of software components via Ubuntu software center? Or should I install the Synaptic Package manager? (e.g. http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=3610)

Is there any difference between the two installation applications?

Answer 1

I had a lot of trouble syncing processing and arduino in 12.04. I installed arduino in every possible way imaginable: from the website, from synaptic/software-centre, from apt-get... etc and it just wouldn't run.

If you are having trouble 'running' it , go to a terminal and run it there to see the problem. Post details.

In my case I got java headlessexceptions errors, which I concluded was because 12.04 didn't have any JAVA stuff installed? Can you believe it! It came to me as a shock, but oh well:

Go to synaptic and get the following packages: java-common, openjdk-7/6, java-wrappers, libjaxme-java, default-jre, defaul-jdk, libbsf-java, default-jre-headless, openjdk-6-jre-headless

I am sorry if some of these are irrelevant to arduino, I just went on a 'click-on-jdk' stuff spree and got it to work :) Processing and Arduino run like a charm now!

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Follow this tutorial for setting up Arduino in Ubuntu. I found this one to be the most helpful. Install Arduino IDE in Ubuntu.