Arduino IDE won't open on Laptop

[Drigs]

Hi I am new to the raspberry pi environment. I have just installed Buster in a old laptop that was collecting dust.
The intention is to install Arduino IDE to have some small projects going.... however after 3 different versions installed none are launching.. (opening) I have read a few articles and watched some videos but unfortunately I cant find the problem...

Any assistance is appreciated,

[hippy]

I have just installed Buster in a old laptop that was collecting dust.

This works for me when installing the latest Arduino IDE on a "Debian Buster with Raspberry Pi Desktop: The Raspberry Pi Desktop OS for PC and Mac - based on Debian Buster" system - Ignore the 'mimeapps.list' errors and warnings -

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cd ~
wget https://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.8.13-linux32.tar.xz
tar -xvf arduino-1.8.13-linux32.tar.xz
cd arduino-1.8.13
sudo ./install.sh
arduino

That should launch the Arduino IDE and show "1.8.13" in the title bar.

Having attempted other installs you might have to tweak things to get the Start Menu entry working. Let us know how the above goes and we can move on to that if necessary.

[scruss]

I installed Arduino on my Raspberry pi 3.

Hi - and welcome to the board.

This sounds like you installed the 'arduino' package from the Raspberry Pi repositories. For some reason, they're stuck on a very old version that basically doesn't work. I don't know how users are supposed to know this, but you can remove it by opening a terminal and typing:

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sudo apt remove --purge arduino

There's an unofficial way of installing the latest version, and it should run quite well (if not super-fast) on your Raspberry Pi 3. In a terminal, enter the following commands as shown:

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mkdir -p ~/Applications
cd ~/Applications
wget https://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.8.13-linuxarm.tar.xz
tar xvf arduino-1.8.13-linuxarm.tar.xz
cd arduino-1.8.13
./install.sh

That will install Arduino IDE into the Programming menu for the current user.

The other instructions in this thread aren't for Raspberry Pis.

[hippy]

Hi - and welcome to the board.

I think you missed the thread-necro, and the shift from on a Pi, to on a PC running Raspbian Pi Desktop

So did I; had to change "linuxarm" to "linux32".

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi I am new to the raspberry pi environment. I have just installed Buster in a old laptop that was collecting dust.
The intention is to install Arduino IDE to have some small projects going.... however after 3 different versions installed none are launching.. (opening) I have read a few articles and watched some videos but unfortunately I cant find the problem...

Any assistance is appreciated,

You do not have a "raspberry pi environment" as you do not have a Raspberry Pi..

....you are running "Debian Buster x86-32 with Raspberry Pi Desktop"


Therefore look to the Official Documentation:

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

[mahjongg]

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