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2025-01-02 11:51 am
Happy New Year!
Decided to rebuild my Ubuntu development desktop (Dell Optiplex) which includes installation of Arduino IDE(s) V1 & 2. Of course, ran into the known issue desribed here:
https://forum.arduino.cc/t/cant-install-2-3-3-on-ubuntu-24-04/1322047/2
After reading, re-reading, asking co-pilot and several coffees, I did kluge together a proper set of steps for the fix. Pretty much followed this: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/issues/2429 witha few extra tweaks for the menu/desktop icon etc.
I used different locations (and well documented them) and of course when I launched the 2.3.3 version of the IDE I immediately got the message of an update to 2.3.4 available! Story of my life!
Many of you probably know about the issue and the fix, but it was new to me so I thought I'd share. Now onto some home automation projects with Home Assistant and some ESP32 baords and sensors 🙂
Cheers!
"Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works." - Michael Hartung
2025-01-02 3:21 pm
@theoutlander This is an Ubuntu issue. My Raspbian and Debian distros are just fine as well as one other who's name I forget (newish distro)
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's & MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
My personal scorecard is now 1 PC hardware fix (circa 1982), 1 open source fix (at age 82), and 2 zero day bugs in a major OS.
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2025-01-02 3:45 pm
@zander Indeed - it broke when they changed things in a recent release. Still took me 2-3 kiicks at it to get the right collection of instructions.
"Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works." - Michael Hartung
2025-01-02 3:59 pm
@theoutlander I am actually impressed anything in the open source world works that well. I spent a small amount of time on the outskirts of that world and it is a clown show. Changes can take years and personalities rule (no different than corporate development) So far I have been lucky and have not been tripped up too badly, but I also try to stay at least a little way off the bleeding edge. Bill's most recent video is ample proof of the kinds of foobar's that can happen with open source, BUT then Bill shows us how to 'fix' some of them. I can't even imagine convincing management at IBM to release new code that knowingly broke old code without a very easy way to fix all the old code. To be totally honest, they would have insisted both could still work and it was my job to make that happen in a transparent manner.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's & MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
My personal scorecard is now 1 PC hardware fix (circa 1982), 1 open source fix (at age 82), and 2 zero day bugs in a major OS.