Arduino clean reinstall

jwalters1955 · September 21, 2020, 4:03pm

System: Net boot Raspberry Pi 3 running Arduino 1.8.8.

Issue: After using the system for some considerable time (at least 2 years), installing numerous libraries and Board Support Packages plus a couple of failed attempts to install 1.8.10 I am receiving more and more 'duplicate library' and 'library function argument mismatch' warnings. I thinks it's time for a tidy up.

Arduino appears to have spread itself quite liberally about the system. So far I have found;

./.arduino15 and ./Arduino folders in my $HOME folder,

Arduino-1.8.8 and Arduino-1.8.10 folders in /opt

a link in /usr/local/bin pointing to a bash script in /opt/arduino-1.8.10/arduino

and I'm sure there's more to be found.

I want to completely erase all trace of Arduino from the machine and start with a completely clean installation. OK, a bit of work to put all of the libraries and BSPs back but it's all got rather out of hand.

Snag is, from previous experience, apt-get uninstall only does half a job and it certainly won't get rid of the additional libraries and BSPs. I will also need to find and update any startup or login scripts that set up Arduino specific environment variables or modifications to $PATH.

Can someone please point me in the right direction of what I need to do in terms of what to uninstall, what to simply delete and what scripts I may need to modify before I attempt to perform a clean install of 1.8.12. (Which I assume works where 1.8.10 didn't on the Pi)

P.S. The old Pi fix of simply reformatting the OS is not an option. This machine is used for far more than just Arduino development.

pert · September 21, 2020, 4:52pm

jwalters1955:
Arduino appears to have spread itself quite liberally about the system. So far I have found;

./.arduino15 and ./Arduino folders in my $HOME folder,

Arduino-1.8.8 and Arduino-1.8.10 folders in /opt

a link in /usr/local/bin pointing to a bash script in /opt/arduino-1.8.10/arduino

and I'm sure there's more to be found.

That should be it. Maybe you have other installations of the Arduino IDE itself. I don't know. I always manually install it, so I know exactly which installations I have and where they are.

If you ran the installation script, you can just open up the script in a text editor to see what else it does. I don't think there's any need for that though.

You might check for ~/.arduino left over from using one of the 1.0.x versions of the Arduino IDE. I'm actually not sure what the folder name was back then, but I know it wasn't ~

jwalters1955:
Snag is, from previous experience, apt-get uninstall only does half a job and it certainly won't get rid of the additional libraries and BSPs. I will also need to find and update any startup or login scripts that set up Arduino specific environment variables or modifications to $PATH.

Did you use apt-get install to install it?

jwalters1955:
I will also need to find and update any startup or login scripts that set up Arduino specific environment variables or modifications to $PATH.

Here's the installation script:

github.com

arduino/Arduino/blob/master/build/linux/dist/install.sh

#!/bin/sh

# This script adds a menu item, icons and mime type for Arduino for the current
# user. If possible, it will use the xdg-utils - or fall back to just creating
# and copying a desktop file to the user's dir.
# If called with the "-u" option, it will undo the changes.

# Resource name to use (including vendor prefix)
RESOURCE_NAME=arduino-arduinoide

# Get absolute path from which this script file was executed
# (Could be changed to "pwd -P" to resolve symlinks to their target)
SCRIPT_PATH=$( cd $(dirname $0) ; pwd )
cd "${SCRIPT_PATH}"

# Default mode is to install.
UNINSTALL=false

# If possible, get location of the desktop folder. Default to ~/Desktop
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="${HOME}/Desktop"

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Here's an optional post-install script that needs to be run manually, so you should remember if you ran it:

github.com

arduino/Arduino/blob/master/build/linux/dist/arduino-linux-setup.sh

#!/bin/bash
# arduino-linux-setup.sh : A simple Arduino setup script for Linux systems
# Copyright (C) 2015 Arduino Srl
#
# Author : Arturo Rinaldi
# E-mail : arty.net2@gmail.com
# Project URL : https://github.com/artynet/arduino-linux-setup
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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Here's the script that starts the Arduino IDE:

github.com

arduino/Arduino/blob/master/build/linux/dist/arduino

#!/usr/bin/env bash

APPDIR="$(dirname -- "$(readlink -f -- "${0}")" )"

for LIB in \
    "$APPDIR"/java/lib/rt.jar \
    "$APPDIR"/java/lib/tools.jar \
    "$APPDIR"/lib/*.jar \
    ;
do
    CLASSPATH="${CLASSPATH}:${LIB}"
done
export CLASSPATH

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$APPDIR/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export PATH="${APPDIR}/java/bin:${PATH}"

export JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=`echo $JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS | sed 's|-javaagent:/usr/share/java/jayatanaag.jar||g'`

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That's everything.

jwalters1955:
Can someone please point me in the right direction of what I need to do in terms of what to uninstall, what to simply delete and what scripts I may need to modify before I attempt to perform a clean install of 1.8.12. (Which I assume works where 1.8.10 didn't on the Pi)

P.S. The old Pi fix of simply reformatting the OS is not an option. This machine is used for far more than just Arduino development.

I think you're going a bit overboard with this. You would likely be fine just deleting ~/Arduino and ~/.arduino15.

jwalters1955 · September 21, 2020, 6:08pm

Thanks for the feedback, that's a job for the next day or so. To be perfectly honest, it's so long since I installed 1.8.8, I can't actually remember the mechanism I used and things do change with time.

I probably am, as you say, going over the top a bit but there are many hours of my life I won't get back due to some residual bit of an old version of something lying around the system and causing all manner of mayhem. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to deep clean right into the darkest corners.

jwalters1955 · September 28, 2020, 8:10am

Now this is why I wanted a clean install....

Downloaded Linux ARM 64 Bit, arduino-1.8.13-linuxaarch64.tar.xz (rpi 3, Quad Core 1.2GHz Broadcom BCM2837 64bit CPU) to $HOME/Downloads.

Unpacked to $HOME/Downloads/arduino-1.8.13

cd to $HOME/Downloads/arduino-1.8.13 and ran ./install.sh which failed due to access permissions.

sudo ./install.sh ran through apparently successfully and added Arduino icon to desktop.

Click icon, get egg timer for a few seconds then nothing.

Run home/john/Downloads/arduino-1.8.13/arduino from the command line and get;

./arduino: line 35: /home/john/Downloads/arduino-1.8.13/java/bin/java: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

This is why I could never get 1.8.10 to run. What am I doing wrong?

pert · September 28, 2020, 8:18am

Even though your RPi's CPU is 64 bit, if your operating system is 32 bit, you still need to use the "Linux ARM 32 bits" download link for the Arduino IDE.

jwalters1955 · October 6, 2020, 2:58pm

Yep, that'll do it. Bit like opening up the engine bay on your 911 and finding a 1300 Beetle engine!!!

All's happy now, thanks.

pert · October 6, 2020, 6:05pm

You're welcome. I'm glad to hear it's working now. There are 64 bit operating systems available for the RPi.

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Arduino clean reinstall

./.arduino15 and ./Arduino folders in my $HOME folder,

Arduino-1.8.8 and Arduino-1.8.10 folders in /opt

a link in /usr/local/bin pointing to a bash script in /opt/arduino-1.8.10/arduino

./.arduino15 and ./Arduino folders in my $HOME folder,

Arduino-1.8.8 and Arduino-1.8.10 folders in /opt

a link in /usr/local/bin pointing to a bash script in /opt/arduino-1.8.10/arduino

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