Skip to content

Updated README.md to clarify installation folder of git version within Mac OS X #4730

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
d-a-v merged 2 commits into from
May 18, 2018
Merged

Updated README.md to clarify installation folder of git version within Mac OS X #4730

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
c6383bf
Update README.md
tzahari May 14, 2018
f00d617
Merge branch 'master' into master
earlephilhower May 17, 2018
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
8 changes: 6 additions & 2 deletions README.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -33,8 +33,12 @@ Documentation: [https://arduino-esp8266.readthedocs.io/en/2.4.1/](https://arduin
### Using git version
[![Linux build status](https://travis-ci.org/esp8266/Arduino.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/esp8266/Arduino)

- Install Arduino 1.8.2 from the [Arduino website](http://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software).
- Go to Arduino directory
- Install the current upstream Arduino IDE at the 1.8 level or later. The current version is at the [Arduino website](http://www.arduino.cc/en/main/software).
- Go to Arduino application directory
- For Mac OS X normally:
```bash
cd /Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java

@igrr igrr May 18, 2018

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Is it normal to install Arduino into global applications directory, instead of putting it somewhere in home directory?

Maybe we can relax this to /path/to/Arduino.app?

@d-a-v d-a-v May 18, 2018

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Collaborator

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

I used to use mac too some time ago, and that was the place where I installed Arduino, so the place seemed right to me.
But you are right, not everyone is root on his machine, or want to install a single version of arduino in the global app dir.
I will fix this.

@tzahari tzahari May 18, 2018 •
edited
Loading

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor Author

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Yes, you are right. In Mac OS X you can put the app bundle everywhere.
It seems there is no easy way to get the folder of an app via bash.
If you want, I can update the doc as suggested by @igrr

```
- Clone this repository into hardware/esp8266com/esp8266 directory (or clone it elsewhere and create a symlink)
```bash
cd hardware
Expand Down