:o Why is this install so difficult ?
I downloaded the tar.xz file, and unpacked it into the directory arduino-1.8.0
The files in the directory are:
[hexdump@corky-pc arduino-1.8.0]$ ls -a -h -l
total 3.7M
drwxr-xr-x 10 hexdump hexdump 4.0K Dec 21 2016 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 hexdump hexdump 4.0K Oct 7 07:43 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hexdump hexdump 946 Dec 21 2016 arduino
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hexdump hexdump 3.5M Dec 21 2016 arduino-builder
drwxr-xr-x 13 hexdump hexdump 4.0K Dec 21 2016 examples
drwxr-xr-x 4 hexdump hexdump 4.0K Dec 21 2016 hardware
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hexdump hexdump 9.0K Dec 21 2016 install.sh
drwxr-xr-x 6 hexdump hexdump 4.0K Sep 22 2016 java
drwxr-xr-x 4 hexdump hexdump 4.0K Dec 21 2016 lib
drwxr-xr-x 21 hexdump hexdump 4.0K Dec 21 2016 libraries
drwxr-xr-x 6 hexdump hexdump 4.0K Dec 21 2016 reference
-rw-r--r-- 1 hexdump hexdump 79K Dec 21 2016 revisions.txt
drwxr-xr-x 4 hexdump hexdump 4.0K Dec 21 2016 tools
drwxr-xr-x 3 hexdump hexdump 4.0K Dec 15 2016 tools-builder
-rwxr-xr-x 1 hexdump hexdump 86 Dec 21 2016 uninstall.sh
[hexdump@corky-pc arduino-1.8.0]$
And then I ran the script file install/sh.
[hexdump@corky-pc arduino-1.8.0]$ [b]sudo ./install.sh[/b]
[sudo] password for hexdump:
Adding desktop shortcut, menu item and file associations for Arduino IDE... done!
[hexdump@corky-pc arduino-1.8.0]$
And all it seemed to do was add an icon. So where the heck does the IDE software get iinstalled ?
thanks