There are security reasons why the application should not write to the application folder by default. and why not integrate the settings folder containing "preferences.txt" into either the ~/Arduino-1.8.5 folder.If it was named "settings" then how would you know which application that folder was associated with and how would they be sure it wouldn't conflict with another application that also chose such a generic folder name? So the "15" stands for 1.5.Īnd why not a folder or sub-folder called "settings" etc fot that stuff?) arduino but then some major changes were made in Arduino IDE 1.5.x and so they created a new folder so that the new system would not interfere with the Arduino IDE 1.0.x installations. why they called it arduino15 any way (what is "15" ?.
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Of the 0.01% that do need to access it, 99% will be advanced enough users to know how to access hidden folders. 99.99% of Arduino users would never need to access that folder.
I don't have a precise answer for this other than "it's what everyone does".
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That's called the sketchbook folder (File > Preferences > Sketchbook location).Ĭan I just c+p my libs from my Windows portable\libraries folder into the /home/pi/Arduino/libraries folder without messing up the Windows path names then for Linux? It's not absolutely necessary to run that installation script but it looks like it does provide a way to undo any changes the script makes.Īnd 2nd Arduino (with empty subfolder: libraries) If called with the "-u" option, it will undo the changes. If possible, it will use the xdg-utils - or fall back to just creating and copying a desktop file to the user's dir. This script adds a menu item, icons and mime type for Arduino for the current user. # If possible, get location of the desktop folder. # (Could be changed to "pwd -P" to resolve symlinks to their target) # Get absolute path from which this script file was executed # Resource name to use (including vendor prefix) # If called with the "-u" option, it will undo the changes. # and copying a desktop file to the user's dir. If possible, it will use the xdg-utils - or fall back to just creating # This script adds a menu item, icons and mime type for Arduino for the current The comment in that script says: arduino/Arduino/blob/master/build/linux/dist/install.sh #!/bin/sh There is an installation script that comes with the Arduino IDE. So to undo that you would only need to delete the downloaded file and the folder that was extracted from it.
How do I have to make a clean uninstall and purge of this package? Just in case anything fails, hangs up or gets (partially) corrupted now or any time in the future: