Installing Arduino IDE

The Arduino IDE – written in Java- is not executed on the Arduino microcontroller itself, but on a computer with Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. With this development environment, programs can be created for the Arduino microprocessor to control the connected components such as LEDs or motors.

To install the Arduino IDE on our Natrix Gateway, we first need to download the latest version from the official Arduino site. (Arduino(3), 2021)

There we have to choose the Linux ARM variant. The download (arduino-nightly-linuxarm.tar.xz) can be done straight away an appropriate directory – /opt/arduino

From here we unpack the archive.

tar -xf arduino-nightly-linuxarm.tar.xz

After unpacking the archive, we get a folder /arduino-nightly in which we find the installation script install.sh.

/opt/arduino/arduino-nightly# ./install.sh
Adding desktop shortcut, menu item and file associations for Arduino IDE...

done!

As stated in the installation scrip output, a desktop shortcut of the Arduino IDE has been created.