thallia
Arduino in Rofi - Building from Source
I’ve been needing to use my Arduino IDE for a class I’m in at the moment, but it was being a dork and having me change all these permissions for me to access a port (which I fixed…) but I also didn’t like having to execute it from the terminal and experiencing library issues, since I hadn’t set it up right in the first place.
So the first step was (after clearing out all the old arduino IDEs I’d messed with), I installed the linux64 package from the Arduino website.
After it downloaded, I moved it to my home directory and ran:
tar -xf arduino-1.8.8.tar.xz
to extract it, then removed the archive with:
rm arduino-1.8.8.tar.xz
At this point it ran, but I didn’t have the executable.
cd arduino-1.8.8
./install.sh
and everything should exist.
But, this didn’t solve my problem of wanting to not execute from the folder.
So I looked into what are called $PATH variables in linux, and for my specific shell,(fish shell for the win!) I found I needed to permanently add the arduino directiory into my config.fish file.
So I went into ~/.config/fish/ and created config.fish, then inside that file added:
set PATH ~/arduino-1.8.8/ $PATH
which adds that directory’s executables to the $PATH variable.
But that still doesn’t solve executing from the terminal.
So I did something sneaky, and symlinked the arduino executable to where my Rofi applications manager executes programs from:
sudo ln -s ~/arduino-1.8.8/arduino /usr/bin/arduino
And boom, problem solved. :)
Until next time!
{thallia}