I have been working on linux for about a year now and love it, yet there are many little things that I just don't understand like the installation of software packages when not using the software manager or synaptic manager.
I see and know how to install the IDE software via those package managers, yet its version 18. Hence I need to download and manually install the newest version (have a Uno on the way)...but I just can't figure it out.
Will someone be so kind as to help me or point me to a nice step-by-step guide to installation in linux? (it took me a week to figure out how to install Xampp :-/ ).
Alternatively I can (will be dual-booting with XP Pro) just install it the .exe way in XP.
Here is the instruction I use for Ubuntu. I don't know anything about LinuxMint, but they may be similar.
Downloaded version 0022 from:
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
// it downloaded to my /home/mark/Downloads directory
// open terminal from ubuntu menu
Applications->Accessories->Terminal
// go to downloads directory
cd ~/Downloads
// untar the downloaded file
tar -vxzf arduino-0022.tgz
// change directory to replace librxtxSerial library
cd arduino-0022/lib
// backup original lib
mv librxtxSerial.so librxtxSerial.so.orig
//find librxtxSerial library that works for this system
find / -ls 2>&1 | grep -i librxtxSerial
if librxtSerial library is not found somewhere in a /usr/lib subdirectory
// this will require root password
sudo apt-get install arduino
// rerun the find command
else
// found it in /usr/lib/jni
// copy it to arduino-0022/lib directory
cp /usr/lib/jni/librxtxSerial.so .
// go up one directory
cd ..
// exec arduino software
./arduino