Installing arduino (1.0) on slackware (13.37)

aikempshall · 02-28-2012, 12:27 PM

Just installed the software for arduino. Thought this might help others if they encounter the same problem.

Found this document http://arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Slackware
Downloaded the relevant packages from slackbuild for 13.37 and compiled them;

As root changed the permissions for /var/lock -

Code:

chmod u+rwx,g+rwx,o+rwxt /var/lock

. This got over this problem

Quote:

"please see: How can I use Lock Files with rxtx? in INSTALL check_group_uucp(): error testing lock file creation Error details:Permission deniedcheck_lock_status: No permission to create lock file."

As my id went to kde->Applications->System->User Manager and added the group dialout to my id. I did not have to change the permissions, using udev or otherwise, for /dev/ttyACM0 as adding the group dialout to my id was sufficient. Permissions out of the box were

Quote:

crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 166, 0 Feb 28 17:47 ttyACM0
As my id changed this line in ~/.arduino/preferences.txt
from

Quote:

serial.port=COM1

to

Quote:

serial.port=/dev/ttyACM0

That was all. Hope this helps. I'll do an install on my other machine to make sure I've not missed out a step here.

corp769 · 02-29-2012, 05:05 AM

Good to know, thanks for the write-up!

Cheers,

Josh

glorsplitz · 03-04-2012, 08:16 PM

Hi, I'm a little curious now that you have arduino working what sort of stuff are you going to be doing with some kind of electronic gizmo?

Sound interesting, thanks.

jarubyh · 03-05-2012, 04:58 PM

Thanks. I didn't use Slackbuilds for my Arduino compiler+IDE, so the experience could have quite accurately been described as "the great dependency hunt".

spudgunner · 03-06-2012, 02:51 PM

Just installed this on -current over the past weekend myself, didn't have any problems following the directions of the Slackware Arduino page. That note after the installation bit is key though.