I have downloaded the arduino package. Now I need to install it. I have extracted the files also, but I don't have idea what to do now? How can I do so?
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What files are in the extracted folder? – You'reAGitForNotUsingGit Jun 01 '16 at 15:00
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4possible duplicated http://askubuntu.com/questions/107619/how-do-i-install-the-arduino-ide – Mohamed Slama Jun 01 '16 at 15:01
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1I think that duplicate may be a bit out of date @MohamedSlama it should not need all those steps these days. – Mark Kirby Jun 01 '16 at 16:11
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@MarkKirby since doesn't mention any specific version of Ubuntu I recently post there an updated answer. – Pablo Bianchi May 10 '17 at 00:02
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If you are struggling at this early point in compiling your software, I can't recommend enough, that you install the version from the repositories
Open a terminal and run
sudo apt-get install arduino
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From http://playground.arduino.cc/Linux/Ubuntu:
After downloading it can be unpacked anywhere. […] You will also have to start the Arduino application by opening the folder where you unpacked it to (or integrate it with Ubuntu by providing a
.desktopfile).
In other words, the folder where you extracted the files should have an executable for the IDE.
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