I have followed the instructions in the Playground for installing the latest software from github.com for my gentoo system.
Why is the download from github.com so mine-bogglingle huge? It's 750MB and counting!
Shocked...
Jim
What download? Link please?
http://arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Gentoo
It said to put the following in the layman directory:
<!DOCTYPE repositories SYSTEM "/dtd/repositories.dtd">
<repositories xmlns="" version="1.0">
<repo quality="experimental" status="unofficial">
<name><![CDATA[arduino]]></name>
<description><![CDATA[arduino overlay]]></description>
<homepage>http://gitorious.org/gentoo-arduino/arduino</homepage>
<owner>
<email>stharwardATgmail.com</email>
<name><![CDATA[Soren Harward]]></name>
</owner>
<source type="git">git://gitorious.org/gentoo-arduino/arduino.git</source>
<feed>http://gitorious.org/gentoo-arduino/arduino.atom</feed>
</repo>
<repo quality="experimental" status="unofficial">
<name><![CDATA[luksans-arduino]]></name>
<description><![CDATA[another arduino overlay]]></description>
<homepage>http://gitorious.org/~luksan/gentoo-arduino/luksans-arduino</homepage>
<owner>
<email>luksanATgmail.com</email>
<name><![CDATA[Lukas Sandström]]></name>
</owner>
<source type="git">git://gitorious.org/~luksan/gentoo-arduino/luksans-arduino.git</source>
<feed>http://gitorious.org/~luksan/gentoo-arduino/luksans-arduino.atom</feed>
</repo>
</repositories>
When I ran 'emerge arduino', a lot of java stuff was built, then:
>>> Emerging (73 of 73) dev-embedded/arduino-0021 from ardunio
>>> cfg-update-1.8.2-r1: Creating checksum index...
* Note that you need >=cross-avr/gcc-4.4.1, if you intend to use the new
* Arduino Mega 2560.
>>> Unpacking source...
* git.eclass is deprecated.
* Please update your ebuilds to use git-2 instead. For details, see
* http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_b7ba363cae580845819ae3501fb157e9.xml
* GIT NEW clone -->
* repository: git://github.com/arduino/Arduino.git
Cloning into bare repository /mnt/WD-2/portage/distfiles/git-src/arduino-0021...
remote: Counting objects: 19460, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6364/6364), done.
remote: Total 19460 (delta 11475), reused 18407 (delta 10823)
Receiving objects: 100% (19460/19460), 978.05 MiB | 214 KiB/s, done.
Out of all of that, only 8.6MB of space is used in /usr/share/arduino-0021.
I found the 'arduino' executable at /usr/share/arduino-0021/arduino. When I started it, the first thing I saw was a window saying there was a newer version availale (1.0.1). I thought what I got from github.com was supposed to be the latest.
What link at Github.com?
Do you mean this?
http://gitorious.org/gentoo-arduino/arduino
The latest activity there is Friday November 05 2010.
That's hardly recent.