I have an ARM chromebook running Ubuntu under crouton. I've installed Arduino from the repository using apt-get but it comes up as version 1.0.
I'd like to install the latest version and downloaded arduino-1.6.11-linuxarm.tar.xz
I'm trying to install this but I don't seem to be able to do it with Synaptic or even unpack it. Synaptic doesn't recognize the package and whatever extract utilities are installed don't seem to work with this file.
Anyone have a few tips to get this installed?
Presently Chrome OS is not supported.
You are running Linux over the top of essentially Android which is going to be giving issues in all sorts of places.
Maybe wait until the CREATE (web based IDE) team bring it out for Android (they say its on the "roadmap")
Fact that you got this far is a testament to your skills.
If you got this far you could try the CREATE option to see how far you can push that ?
EDIT...BTW I have now read your post 3 times and i am still impressed you got this far on an ARM cpu
The .tgz file just needs to be unzipped. It doesn't need installation, it is self contained. Unzip, cd into the arduino-nnnn directory and run the arduino bash script.
Debian stop to package arduino since the fight: two IDE there is one too many, last packaged version is 1.05.
As Ubuntu take his pakage from Debian repositories there is also no ubuntu package.
I don't know chromebooks(hardware) but if you have installed a true Ubuntu OS you can installed a version downloded from this site.