Massive download from github.com

Using Arduino Installation & Troubleshooting
#1

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

#2

What download? Link please?

#3

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.

#4

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.

#5

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.

#6