Create an Arduino package (.deb) for Debian / Ubuntu

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Is anyone working on a debian package for Arduino ?

If not then I wouldnt mind having a go at the calleng.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pedromor...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2009 at 4:38

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Sorry for the spelling mistakes above. Unfortunately I cannot correct the 
anomaly;
also my haste in excitement.

Here is what I propose goes into the Debian Package Initially: 

First off package naming convention:
can we take a leaf out of ubuntu's book, and use mountains, hills, plains [a=1, 
h=n]
etc, 
Andes,
Brecon Beacons,
Everest,
FujiSan,
KillManJarOh

Package Name: {PACHAKE_NAME}
Contents:

Arduino - /trunk  
Examples folder / code
documentation == missing

Destination pull target  would be a subdomain eg
dist.aruduino.*

Anyone else working upon the problem ?

Original comment by pedromor...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2009 at 5:23

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Also/
Extras/ eg all the normal plugins featured and approved.

I would like to take the model of Extjs.com and the third part site
http://extjs-ux.org/twiki/ wherby its a pull of all the other repos.

Original comment by pedromor...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2009 at 6:42

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Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 15 Jun 2009 at 7:56

• Changed title: Create an Arduino package (.deb) for Debian / Ubuntu
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ive made a 32 bit deb package, ill be creating a 64 bit version soon,

http://cray-4.users.sourceforge.net/arduino.deb

Original comment by CRAY4.Li...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2009 at 7:21

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CRAY4.Linux - download fails. Opens as text file. Maybe the headers are 
incorrect.

Also its silly that this issue tracker on Google doen not emil me when a 
comment etc
is made..

Original comment by pedromor...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2009 at 11:02

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As mentioned <a
href="http://wiki.hands.com/chezfil/entry/arduino_for_the_java_challenged/">here
</a>
I've knocked up a package of just the CLI bits required to play with an Arduino 
(i.e.
no IDE, and hence no Java dependency)

I've also pointed at it on the Arduino Debian page:
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Debian#alioth_project

I'd welcome anyone wishing to insert the Java stuff back into this package 
(hence the
collaborative package hosting on alioth.debian.org) but would want to preserve 
the
ability to generate an arduino-core package that is not dependent on java.

Original comment by phil-goo...@hands.com on 2 Jan 2010 at 8:03

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I want arduino-core with NO JAVA

On this project 
http://code.google.com/p/arduino-pyqt/

Original comment by pedromor...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2010 at 12:59

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Here's the package we use. It has the gui and all. I killed all the architecture
dependent binaries and made sym links to the debian equivalents. Works well. 
Have yet
to test it on 64 bit yet, but it should work unless I missed something.

# HSL
deb http://hsl.dynalias.com/apt lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://hsl.dynalias.com/apt lenny main contrib non-free

Original comment by james.goppert@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2010 at 4:20

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Issue 207 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2010 at 5:43

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I want to finalize this issue, then start from scratch or one of the developers 
did something stable?

Original comment by willian....@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 10:58

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There is a package (arduino 0018) for some time now, 

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Ubuntu

Eberhard

Original comment by e.fa...@wayoda.org on 10 Jun 2010 at 7:09

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This package is compatible with debian?

Original comment by willian....@gmail.com on 14 Jun 2010 at 11:37

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Update on Debian work. Philip's package (see comment 6 above) has had
the java bits added to it, and the complete package is available in
the "main" repository of Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Ubuntu has auto-synced
it, and it will be available in the "universe" repository of Ubuntu
10.10 (Maverick). Installation is as simple as "apt-get install
arduino" (or "apt-get install arduino-core" for java-free CLI). You
can also use synaptic, aptitude, or even find it in the "Ubuntu
Software Center."

Thanks to dmellis for patching a bug in avrdude, the Ubuntu Arduino
Packaging team for patching avrdude in Ubuntu, and the Debian java
packaging team for patching avrdude in Debian so that it can be used with 
arduinos.
Also thanks to the Debian java packaging team for fixing the RXTX java package 
to be ported to amd64 and several other architectures.

The only patch to the java code is to use org.apache.oro.text.regex.* instead 
of com.oroinc.text.regex.* for licensing reasons.
http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/arduino.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/patches/
convert_to_debian_oro.patch
(http://projects.apache.org/projects/oro.html)

The source tarball is a mixture of SVN and the officially downloaded release. I 
see that there is another Issue in this tracker to release a source tarball of 
arduino. That would be good to get: just the minimum amount of source code 
needed to create the arduino jar.

Original comment by showard...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2010 at 12:42

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Now that the packaging process is well developed, could be added to the source 
code in SVN the packaging scripts for developers to modify the source, power 
pack, just the way it is generated .tar.gz?

Original comment by willian....@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2010 at 5:18

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how often do they update it, there at release 0021, but my install under 
apt-get is only at 0018.

Original comment by mike.dis...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2010 at 9:44

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Scott Howard (and co?) have been doing a great job (AFAICT) of maintaining and 
updating Ubuntu and Debian packages for Arduino, so I think we probably don't 
need to do this ourselves.

Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2011 at 10:14

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