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Is an article about how to install Gnoduino welcome here? It's the Arduino Java IDE ported to Python and intended for the Gnome desktop.

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It's Open Source.  It's Arduino related.  I can't imagine why it would not be welcome.

Are you using Gnoduino?

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Awesome, I hadn't heard of this before! This is dramatically faster on my development laptop than the Java-based IDE.

For folks on RPM-based distributions, extracting the tarball from the Gnoduino website, running "python setup.py bdist_rpm", and installing the generated RPM in the "dist" directory should do the trick. On Fedora, you'll also need the "pyserial" RPM installed.

Cool beans. Wish I could select a different (proportional!) font for the editing frame, though; might need to submit a patch for that.

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Hey that's kinda neat. I'm a huge fan of Python and I could see myself possibly using this (that's if I ever migrate away from Windows).

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This is pretty neat; I got it installed very quickly (on my Ubuntu 9.10 box - I need to upgrade). I haven't played with it much, but it does seem like something that could be expanded and enhanced. Thanks for posting this!

 

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You're welcome. I wanted to post the instructions which I had a hard time finding due to microscopic font disease on the website.

I'm a new user to it so I won't have any greater insight than the rest of you.

http://gnome.eu.org/evo/index.php/Gnoduino

Thanks for the RPM instructions logic, I'd missed those and did the build install option as root.

python setup.py build install

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Thanks for the RPM instructions logic, I'd missed those and did the build install option as root.

python setup.py build install

Yeah - they didn't make that too clear; I ran it non-root first time, got some errors about permissions, so sudo'd the command line (on Ubuntu here) and it installed OK.

Something I did find out though was that it wouldn't run properly, unless you invoked the program from where your preferences.txt was located. So I ended up making a small shell script that switches to the directory, then invokes the program - and it was up and running.

I have yet to actually try uploading anything to my Arduino board (I actually don't have any issue with the standard editor, aside from common pet-peeves; I just wanted to try out this python system since it was different).

 

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Nice..gotta give this a try.

Thanks