Hi, WARNING! I AM __VERY__ NEW TO ARDUINO! :)
For a little project I need to program an Arduino board. Since all needed lib/scatched/script - or whatever it is called in case of the Arduino - are already implemented by someone else I will not reinvent the wheel a second time :) Therefore I need the Arduino IDE. Here http://playground.arduino.cc/Linux/Gentoo I found some instructions, how to install it on GENTOO (I am on a 64 bit AMD machine...) But I found this: | 64-bit users: | librxtx is reported to cause some problems on gentoo linux because of an overflow, | causing the IDE to fail. This problem is noted at rxtx here. Please go here for fixed binaries. Above, "here" is a link ... which cannot be resolved. Furthermore: | Installing the Basics: | First you need to log in as the superuser and install some necessary packages: | emerge -avq sun-jre-bin crossdev but eix sun-jre-bin says "not found". So I /think/ this page is a little outdated...? An eix arduino gives two matches: * dev-embedded/arduino Available versions: 1.0.5-r1^bs {doc examples ELIBC="FreeBSD"} Homepage: http://arduino.cc/ https://arduino.googlecode.com/ Description: An open-source AVR electronics prototyping platform * dev-ros/rosserial_arduino Available versions: ~0.7.1 **9999 {test PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" ROS_MESSAGES="+cxx eus lisp +python"} Homepage: http://wiki.ros.org/rosserial_arduino Description: Libraries and examples for ROSserial usage on Arduino/AVR Platforms If the first one is the IDE it is outdated. The current version is 1.6.8. The second match seems not to be relevant in my case. Question: What software do I need for programming an Arduino board "the arduino way to do it" -- preverable installing it "the GENTOO way to do it" (read: I like sources and compilations, I dont like bin blobs from unknown sources that much...) Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a nice weekend! :) Best regards, Meino
