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These instructions were tested on Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) but similar steps should work on other versions. (You will find one step written up for both Dapper and 7.04)
A pre-compiled patched version of avrdude is included. If it doesn't run on your system, you'll need to install it yourself. The source is available here: avrdude-5.4-arduino-0010-src.tgz. After compiling, copy avrdude and avrdude.conf to the hardware/tools/ sub-directory of the Arduino application directory.
You need to uninstall braille support if you want to use /dev/ttyUSB0: just remove the package brltty in Adept, and the USB port will be available for communication with Arduino.
Two symptoms of this problem are:
if you get an exception like this one:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/chris/Desktop/arduino-0011/lib/librxtxSerial.so: /home/chris/Desktop/arduino-0011/lib/librxtxSerial.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 (Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch)
download a librxtxSerial.so which fits your architecture:
apt-get install librxtx-java
replace the librxtxSerial.so with the amd64 version from /usr/lib/librxtxSerial.so
September 23, 2007 , relates to Ubuntu 7.04
The keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-X Ctrl-V etc.) in the arduino-ide are not working due to a bug in the Java Runtime Environment version 1.6.00.
Since this is the latest version of the JRE that can be installed through Adept, there is no easy workaround. You either have to downgrade to version 1.5 of the Java Runtime (available through Adept) or install an updated version (>=1.6.02) of the runtime manually.
October 15, 2007 Bug has been fixed in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
if you get an exception like this one:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/chris/Desktop/arduino-0011/lib/librxtxSerial.so: /home/chris/Desktop/arduino-0011/lib/librxtxSerial.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 (Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch)
download a librxtxSerial.so which fits your architecture:
apt-get install librxtx-java
replace the librxtxSerial.so with the amd64 version from /usr/lib/librxtxSerial.so
If your program wont compile for atmega 328 then your gcc-avr is probably version 4.4.2
Check by issuing the command: avr-gcc -v
If it returns 4.2.2, add the following repository to Synaptic package manager:
deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty main universe
(Yes these are packages from the Ubuntu version Jaunty (9.04), but they are not dependent on other packages, so it should not break Ubuntu 8.04)
Then update both gcc-avr and avr-libc .
I suggest you then disable the above repository, so as not to break your system by mistake!
An exception like:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel not found in
gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:lib/,
file:lib/build/,file:lib/pde.jar,file:lib/antlr.jar,file:lib/oro.jar,
file:lib/registry.jar,file:lib/mrj.jar,file:lib/RXTXcomm.jar],
parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.ExtensionClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}}
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.81)
at gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.81)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.81)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.81)
at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.81)
at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(libgcj.so.81)
at processing.app.Base.<init>(Base.java:131)
at processing.app.Base.main(Base.java:104)
Means gcj is not working right for you. Try uninstalling it and its dependencies but keep your jre installed.
It looks as though the bug described below has been fixed. Since gcc-avr (1:4.3.0-3), ubuntu 8.10's gcc-avr has been patched to fix gcc-avr bug #35519, which, according to gcc bug #35872, solves this issue, so the steps below are no longer necessary.
Ubuntu 8.10 has by default avr-gcc version 4.3.0, which has a major bug that affects constant multiplication of long int's. You can check your current version using "avr-gcc --version".
If necessary, you can upgrade to the versions of the gcc-avr and avr-libc packages from Ubuntu Jaunty as shown below (should no longer be necessary!):
Ubuntu 9.0.4 installs fine but does not run in the Ubuntu Netbook Remix(UNR) version. In UNR the Arduino IDE starts, but the main window stays blank. One workaround is to right click on the window title bar and choose Unmaximize, then resize the windows as large as you want, but don't maximize it. After Unmaximizing the window may appear really small (1cm x 1cm) in the upper left cornet, just drag the borders with the mouse to make it bigger.
If you're getting an error like "avrdude: AVR Part "m328p" not found" while trying to upload a sketch to your Duemilanove, that's because the avrdude version shipped with Jaunty is outdated; you'll need to compile it yourself, version 5.6 or higher, available here
If you're having trouble with "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/io/CommPortIdentifier", another solution is to replace the librxtxSerial.so and RXTXComm.jar from the "lib" folder and replace them with the files from libRXTX's 2.2 pre-release branch. More details are available.
Linux Mint is a lightly customised version of Ubuntu, with things like Flash and DVDCSS and other things included by default. These instructions may therefore also work for Ubuntu Jaunty.
To run it on any Intel machine (even one with Windows installed) you can boot from a LiveCD available at http://www.linuxmint.com/
'WARNING when using a LiveCD anything you save is in a temporary filesystem. Save to a pen drive or somewhere else to be sure of keeping your files.
The following sequence of instructions completely installed and launched the arduino 17 environment from a Linux Mint 7 LiveCD. They also work on a fully installed version of Linux Mint 7.
The arduino-0017 folder should show up in your home folder and it should automatically launch arduino. All you then have to do is choose the correct serial port and board type in the menus and you can program arduino.
#!/bin/bash sudo apt-get install avr-libc cd ~/ wget http://arduino.googlecode.com/files/arduino-0017.tgz tar xzvf arduino*.tgz cd `find -type d -name 'arduino*'` ./arduino
You may wish to boot in compatibility mode, or edit the boot options to disable ACPI if it doesn't boot on any particular machine, although this is rare. To modify the boot options to achieve this you add...
acpi=off pci=noacpi