Arduino IDE v. 1.6 released, can we get in repository?

[Arthur Torrey]

Per http://blog.arduino.cc/2015/02/09/arduino-ide-1-6-is-released-download-it-now/ the newest version of the Arduino IDE is 1.6. The version in the repository is 1.05

This release adds a long list of new features and is also supposed to fix many minor bugs in the existing version.

Can we get a backport so that it is possible to install the current version without risking breaking things by doing so outside the standard Muon package management toolset.

[Arthur Torrey (arthur-torrey)]

Note that this request should probably be applied to all currently supported releases (not sure how to do this)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

I found a corresponding Debian bug report and have attached a bug watch. The maintainer there has been working on a new version, but is unfortunately waiting on license information from upstream.

Regarding backports; normal procedure is that new package versions land in the development release. Once this has happened, it might be possible to request a backport of it for older releases (along with potentially any required dependencies). https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports has more information on backports, in case you haven't seen it already.

[dcuartielles (dcuartielles)]

Can you explain the license issue? I might be able of helping out.

/d

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On 23 July 2015 at 20:37, Hans Joachim Desserud <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Thanks for reporting.
>
> I found a corresponding Debian bug report and have attached a bug watch.
> The maintainer there has been working on a new version, but is
> unfortunately waiting on license information from upstream.
>
> Regarding backports; normal procedure is that new package versions land
> in the development release. Once this has happened, it might be possible
> to request a backport of it for older releases (along with potentially
> any required dependencies). https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports has
> more information on backports, in case you haven't seen it already.
>
> --
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1425677
>
> Title:
> Arduino IDE v. 1.6 released, can we get in repository?
>
> Status in trusty-backports:
> New
> Status in arduino package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in arduino package in Debian:
> Unknown
>
> Bug description:
> Per http://blog.arduino.cc/2015/02/09/arduino-ide-1-6-is-released-
> download-it-now/ the newest version of the Arduino IDE is 1.6. The
> version in the repository is 1.05
>
> This release adds a long list of new features and is also supposed to
> fix many minor bugs in the existing version.
>
> Can we get a backport so that it is possible to install the current
> version without risking breaking things by doing so outside the
> standard Muon package management toolset.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/trusty-backports/+bug/1425677/+subscriptions
>

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

>Can you explain the license issue? I might be able of helping out.

The Debian bug report [1] touches a bit on it, but it also points to a pull request [2] which explains it in more detail.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope this should be easy to resolve. :)

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780706
[2] https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/pull/2703

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Hello all,
arduino 1.6 is packaged here:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/arduino.git

It's ready to go once licensing is cleaned up. The package also outlines the plan for the future of having the hardware support in separate packages so non-free code required for some hardware can end up in multiverse, nonfree

David, thank you very much for looking in to this!

~Scott

[Symax (ayourk)]

There are a few problems with getting this packaged as v1.6.6 requires Java 8. I almost got a complete build of the package with arduino-1.6.5-r3 from arduino.cc and Scott Howard's debian/ folder from his repository. Anything later than that version requires Java 8. I'm still using Trusty and won't be upgrading from that until the next LTS is released.

[Mace (xmacex)]

FYI I have openjdk-8-jre (in addition to openjdk-7-jre), and the Arduino IDE 1.6.7 seems to run after replacing the official Arduino supplied "java" subfolder with a symlink to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-i386. I haven't done any systemaric tests though, and will be running the version of the IDE I downloaded from arduino.cc until the Ubuntu package hopefully eventually catches up.

[Symax (ayourk)]

The problem with openjdk-8-jre involves building the package (aka compiling), not the actually running of the IDE. Unless I'm misunderstanding something you are saying. The openjdk-8-jre has been updated in launchpad since I made my last comment. Maybe it will work now with the updates. I haven't tried.

[Symax (ayourk)]

Building the Arduino 1.6.7+ IDE requires X windows and cannot be built via java.awt.headless=true in Makefile-test
See: https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/pull/3062/files for details.
Other limitations: Sketchbook folder MUST be a subdir under $(BUILDDIR) (I used $(BUILDDIR)/sketchbook) and can't be $(CURDIR) in Makefile-test

I downloaded the Arduino 1.6.7 IDE source from their GitHub at http://github.com/arduino/Arduino/archive/1.6.7.zip and then extracted debian-1.6.7.zip under the extracted github source and renamed it to debian/
Please note that the contents of debian-1.6.7.zip are my crude modifications to Scott Howard's work.

Installed the following PPAs to build Arduino 1.6.7 IDE:
 ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
 ppa:maarten-fonville/ppa

The following alternatives must point to their JDK 1.8 counterparts (via update-alternatives --config):
appletviewer ControlPanel extcheck idlj jar jarsigner java javac javadoc javah javap javaws jcmd jconsole jcontrol jdb jdeps jexec jexec-binfmt jhat jinfo jjs jmap jps jrunscript jsadebugd jstack jstat jstatd keytool mozilla-javaplugin.so native2ascii orbd pack200 policytool rmic rmid rmiregistry schemagen serialver servertool tnameserv unpack200 wsgen wsimport xjc

The location /usr/lib/jvm/default-java must point to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-<arch> where <arch> is the architecture you are compiling against. I used amd64.

I have not yet gotten it to build the package. The following error is as far as I get:

Error while verifying: An error occurred while verifying the sketch
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at cc.arduino.ProgressAwareMessageConsumer.message(ProgressAwareMessageConsumer.java:54)
        at cc.arduino.MessageConsumerOutputStream.flush(MessageConsumerOutputStream.java:71)
        at org.apache.commons.exec.PumpStreamHandler.stop(PumpStreamHandler.java:207)
        at org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecutor.executeInternal(DefaultExecutor.java:363)
        at org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecutor.execute(DefaultExecutor.java:160)
        at org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecutor.execute(DefaultExecutor.java:147)
        at cc.arduino.Compiler.callArduinoBuilder(Compiler.java:256)
        at cc.arduino.Compiler.build(Compiler.java:143)
        at processing.app.BaseNoGui.init(BaseNoGui.java:531)
        at processing.app.BaseNoGui.main(BaseNoGui.java:774)

[Brandon Curtis (brandoncurtis)]

Symax, any progress on building Arduino 1.6.X for Debian/Ubuntu? I am just starting with Debian packaging and Apache Ant, but putting together a PPA for a modern version of the Arduino IDE has been on my list for quite a while.

[Pander (pander)]

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1836486

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Good news and bad news:

* The Debian issue is resolved and a newer version has been packaged. (Not sure why the status wasn't updated automatically, but you can check the linked bug number at the top.
* This was synced and is in Ubuntu Hirsute, the current development release https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arduino/2:1.8.13+dfsg1-1

The bad news is that it fails to start. :( See bug 1916278 for more details.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

the 1.8.13 snap runs without issues here

https://snapcraft.io/arduino