Arduino Installation Guide for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin - arduino

I'm following an installation guide for Arduino. I have Arduino UNO rev3 and ubuntu 64bit
The guide refers to Synaptic Package manager to install software. But it doesn't seem to be available in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.
Should I install the list of software components via Ubuntu software center? Or should I install the Synaptic Package manager? (e.g. http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=3610)
Is there any difference between the two installation applications?

I had a lot of trouble syncing processing and arduino in 12.04.
I installed arduino in every possible way imaginable: from the website, from synaptic/software-centre, from apt-get... etc and it just wouldn't run.
If you are having trouble 'running' it , go to a terminal and run it there to see the problem. Post details.
In my case I got java headlessexceptions errors, which I concluded was because 12.04 didn't have any JAVA stuff installed? Can you believe it! It came to me as a shock, but oh well:
Go to synaptic and get the following packages:
java-common, openjdk-7/6, java-wrappers, libjaxme-java, default-jre, defaul-jdk, libbsf-java, default-jre-headless, openjdk-6-jre-headless
I am sorry if some of these are irrelevant to arduino, I just went on a 'click-on-jdk' stuff spree and got it to work :) Processing and Arduino run like a charm now!
Hope this helps!

Follow this tutorial for setting up Arduino in Ubuntu. I found this one to be the most helpful. Install Arduino IDE in Ubuntu.

Actually the easiest way to get the Arduino IDE on Linux is to download the software from this page http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software (either the 32bit or 64bit linux version depending on your system)
After you download it all you have to do is extract the archive and run the executable called "arduino"

For installing Arduino 1.0 in Precise there is no difference between using Synaptic or Software Center, they will both install including dependancies. The biggest difference is the user interface and that Software Center allows for purchasing some additional software, they are both using your repos defined in /etc/apt/sources.
https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/arduino/
https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/synaptic/

Installing Arduino on Linux is a little bit harder than the same installation on Windows or Mac. A wide list with tutorials for Arduino installation on Linux could be a good help for you. Also, you can check this guide for arduino installation http://playground.arduino.cc//Learning/Linux

The best way to install arduino for ubuntu is with terminal.
The first line command you have to write is:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install arduino
This will update your ubuntu packages and also install the arduino package. Then type:
tar -xvzf filename.tar.xz
Then you have to go to the directory Downloads (cd Downloads), and next to the arduino directory (cd filename).
Finally to run arduino, once you are inside the arduino directory you type:
./arduino
It will run the program.

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How do I download opencl on linux?

I have found several solutions on how to download opencl. But ultimately I have to run the command
"/opt/rocm/opencl/bin/x86_64/clinfo" and end up with the error code "bash: /opt/rocm/opencl/bin/x86_64/clinfo: No such file or directory". So my question is how do I correctly install opencl and so that it is callable in this manner?
The OpenCL runtime is installed alongside your graphics driver. There is no need to install anything else to run OpenCL programs. For OpenCL development, you need to download and include the OpenCL C++ header files. The program clinfo is just a tool to identify your hardware, but you don't need it. To install it, use sudo apt-get install clinfo.

Preparing I.MX 8 Nano for development using Debian with QT UI / dotnet core for communication

I am trying to get the above development system working, I am starting with a Varicsite NANO compute module. I am trying to get QT 5 setup to develop. I have been unable to find a good Debian guide on how to do that. I would eventually want the QT application to run in kiosk mode without the Weston desktop.
I have Debian built using their instructions of building Debian for the IMX8 board. It runs fine Weston comes up on boot.
I have installed the following packages on the target device.
sudo
apache2
php
jq
curl
qtwayland5
gdb
gdbserver
I have attempted to follow their guide on getting QT to work for YOCTO(not Debian) and have not gotten it to work. QT is installed but their Debian build does not come with a full sdk. Nor do they detail all of the packages that need to be installed.
I have also tried following this guide, but it was written for an RPI and X11 not wayland/Weston so some of the steps seem wrong especially in all of the packages it wants you to install.
https://mechatronicsblog.com/cross-compile-and-deploy-qt-5-12-for-raspberry-pi/
Is there a good guide on how to do this, I was thinking of trying to combine the two guides by using his lines to set up rsync and such but I still do not have a full SDK without the right qmake.
My host system is UBUNTU 16.04

Installing Python Client for Driverless AI

I'm trying to install the python client for h2o driverless, but get this message when i try to sudo pip install this whl file i got from the PY_CLIENT on the UI. This is the message i get. Does this work only on Linux systems ?
h2oai_client-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.
this may be related to your version of pip, please see this other generic question on your error filename.whl is not supported wheel on this platform
DAI does does work on linux systems for a full list of compatible installation platforms please see the user guide: http://docs.h2o.ai/driverless-ai/latest-stable/docs/userguide/installing.html

Atom on Raspbian?

Very nooby question, but I'm trying to install Atom text editor on Raspbian Stretch. Is it possible? I've heard because it runs on Electron, it's quite slow for Raspbian. I keep getting an error saying:
E: Unable to locate package atom
I'm following the official instructions for Debian. How can I fix this?
As of today you can't install the official package provided for Debian for its mismatching the hardware platform. Provided binary is for running on x86 hardware, but RPi doesn't come with an Intel/AMD processor, but ARM. So, you most probably need to build it from source yourself.
Primer
So, if you really want to build this from source, you should be aware of the waste of disk space caused by the IMHO poorly implemented build tool which is downloading tons of deps and copying and transpiling code around so you'll end up with 2GB+ of files with 80% accounting to dependencies, only. Since my RPi works with 8GB smartcard, only, I couldn't ever meet the need for disk space even though I was bleeding out Linux by manually removing docs, manpages, locales, ton's of outdated and mostly unused apps etc. The build also requires a whole build tooling chain, tons of dev packages for libraries, so there is a limit to milk the system ... 8GB disk drive simply isn't enough for this.
Eventually I tried moving all the files to a USB pen drive. But that drive must be formatted using a filesystem capable of symlinking. So you can't use vfat or FAT32. I didn't succeed to get a 16GB stick formatted with either version of extfs. The mkfs always ended up in a deadlock on trying to write its superblocks. Astonishingly, I couldn't even kill the mkfs with -KILL, but unplugging the drive did help in that case.
So, as a conclusion: here is a short list of steps I passed in expectation to get this working, but in the end I didn't finish due to the memory issues above. And frankly, I stopped caring ... I'd rather work with nano/vi in a terminal than using this ridiculous lego-like built software. I guess, atom is today's version of emacs with regards to the latter's acronym. Maybe you succeed with this, but I won't ...
Build from Source
Inspired by https://discuss.atom.io/t/atom-on-the-raspberry-pi/33332
Install toolchain for building native stuff
sudo apt-get install build-essential git libgnome-keyring-dev fakeroot gconf2 gconf-service libgtk2.0-0 libudev1 libgcrypt20 python rpm libsecret-1-dev xorg-dev
This set of tools was sufficient to build core files without error. Since I didn't start with a fresh installation of Raspbian there might have been some tool I have been using before, so maybe in your case there are more tools to be installed here. Look out for error messages in early stage of building and try to see if some library or header file isn't found. This mostly indicates lack of some package with name ending in -dev to be installed, too. Start by searching for the package using apt search <name-of-mentioned-library> and look for a package combining the missing library's name with suffix -dev. Then install it the usual way by invoking sudo apt-get install <package-name>.
Install up-to-date nodejs
Raspbian Stretch comes with support for NodeJS 8.11 which is basically okay. Install it and its package manager npm using this command:
sudo apt-get install node-js npm
Check installed versions with
node -v
npm -v
This should display 8.x.x on behalf of NodeJs. Use n afterwards if you want to step up:
sudo npm i -g n
sudo n lts
This will switch NodeJS to latest LTS release, which is 10.x as of now. Upgrading NodeJS is optional, but feel advised to always use latest version of npm:
sudo npm i -g npm
Check if upgrades succeeded:
node -v
npm -v
Adjust configuration of npm and install some essential dep:
sudo npm config set -g python /usr/bin/python2
sudo npm i -g node-gyp
Build Atom
Get the source. One option is to pull latest code from its repository:
git clone https://github.com/atom/atom.git
This is creating subfolder atom containing all source files. You might want to download sources of a recent release instead. But this tutorial was made with the sources fetched from Github. So make sure there is subfolder called atom containing sources similar to the ones fetched above.
It's time to start the beast:
cd atom
./script/build
This process will take a while. And it is the culprit that never finished on success in my case due to eating up all disk space over and over again.
Whenever the script fails on error, try to analyze the error, find the cause, fix it, then start the script by repeating the last command above again. If you don't remove any file in subfolder atom in between, the build script keeps passing steps of building atom it has passed successfully before.
Install atom
According to the original tutorial linked before the script should finish on success eventually. Then it's time to install with:
./script/grunt install
I guess this is causing atom to be available as a command from CLI. So, try it out. If everything looks fine you are finally ready to remove the waste of files in subfolder atom.
Feel free to report if this was working in your case.
From what I recall Atom runs 64-bit architecture; need the latest raspberry Pi.
run the following
wget https://atom.io/download/deb && dpkg -i deb

How to install spark on windows

I downloaded spark 1.0.2 and run on Cygwin
sbt/sbt assembly
but I got the error message:
Attempting to fetch sbt
You do not have curl or wget installed, please install sbt manually from http://www.scala-sbt.org/
But I already downloaded & installed sbt-0.13.5.msi from the given download-page. So what am I doing wrong?
sbt must use wget or curl to download additional dependencies, so you need to install these. On every single operating system other than windows these utilities usually come pre installed. Trying to get these to work on windows cygwin will be a pain, as with absalutely everything that isnt something to do with a monolithic GUI that costs a fortune.
I suggest if you wish to be at all productive in your future life you pick an operating system that works well for serious work. Windows only really works well for C# and MS office, serious computing? Big data? Hahahahaha, No!

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