IDE 2.3.2 message installing Opta board

sbiggar · July 23, 2024, 12:41am

I’m somewhat new to Arduino and I’m running the 2.3.2 IDE on macOS 14.5 on an iMac Pro (Intel Xeon CPU). I have an Opta so I was installing “Arduino Mbed OS Opta Boards, version 4.1.6.

The IDE Output:

Tool arduino:arm-none-eabi-gcc@7-2017q4 already installed

Tool arduino:[email protected] already installed

Downloading packages

arduino:[email protected]

Installing platform arduino:[email protected]

Configuring platform.

You might need to configure permissions for uploading.

To do so, run the following command from the terminal:

sudo "/Users/stu/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/hardware/mbed_opta/4.1.6/post_install.sh"

Platform arduino:[email protected] installed

—end of output in IDE---

Per the message, I copied and pasted the sudo line into terminal, hit enter, typed in the password and got the following:

stu@Stuarts-iPro 32.0.0 % sudo "/Users/stu/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/hardware/mbed_opta/4.1.6/post_install.sh"

Password:

/Users/stu/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/hardware/mbed_opta/4.1.6/post_install.sh: line 31: /etc/udev/rules.d/60-arduino-mbed.rules: No such file or directory

Reload rules...

/Users/stu/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/hardware/mbed_opta/4.1.6/post_install.sh: line 35: udevadm: command not found

/Users/stu/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/hardware/mbed_opta/4.1.6/post_install.sh: line 36: udevadm: command not found

stu@Stuarts-iPro 32.0.0 %

I have no idea if this is an actual error and if it will result in any issues.

Thanks

sterretje · July 23, 2024, 2:55am

I'm not an Opta user not am I a Mac user.

udevadm is used to change rules so you can access the board during uploads and use of serial monitor. If that works, there is no problem; if it does not work it is obviously a problem and I can't help you to solve it.

ptillisch · July 29, 2024, 11:00am

Hi @sbiggar. The instructions are specific to Linux. This is not necessary on a macOS machine. So please just ignore the instructions and don't worry about the fact they failed when you tried to run them. Everything should work fine on your macOS machine without that procedure.

The problem is that, even though this specific script that prints these instructions was written for Linux machines, Arduino IDE runs it also on macOS machines. I did not take that fact into consideration when I added the message to the script, but instead only thought of improving the experience for Linux users. I have now submitted a pull request to fix this problem so that it won't cause confusion to macOS users in the future:

github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-mbed

Configure post-install script to only operate when platform installed on Linux machine

arduino:main ← per1234:post-install-macos-handling

opened 10:54AM - 29 Jul 24 UTC

per1234

+24 -18

The Arduino Boards Manager automatically executes the `post_install.sh` script d…uring installation of the platform on a non-Windows machine: https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/dev/platform-specification/#post-install-script The platform's post-install script is Linux-specific, but no provisions were made in the script code for the fact that it is also executed on macOS machines. Previously, this was fairly innocuous because, although misleading, the message printed to the output during the platform installation was short and cryptic and thus easy for the average macOS user to ignore: ```text Configuring platform. Please run as root ``` Since it is important for Linux users to manually run the script and the previous message did not effectively communicate that, the script was recently modified to print helpful instructions during the Boards Manager installation (https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-mbed/pull/893). The fact that the script is also executed on macOS machines was not considered in that work. This meant that, although an improvement for the Linux user experience was accomplished, the macOS user experience was worsened because those users were then presented with more prominent and detailed inappropriate instructions than the former easy to miss "Please run as root" instruction. For example ```text Configuring platform. You might need to configure permissions for uploading. To do so, run the following command from the terminal: sudo "/Users/per/Library/Arduino15/packages/arduino/hardware/mbed_giga/4.1.5/post_install.sh" ``` The problem is fixed by adjusting the script so that the script simply returns silently if it is invoked on a non-Linux machine. macOS users will now only see the following benign message in the output during the Boards Manager installation: ```text Configuring platform. ``` ### Additional context The POSIX-compliant shell code for determining the operating system the script is running under was derived from the Arduino CLI application's cross-platform installation script: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/blob/v1.0.3/install.sh#L61-L70 That code has withstood the test of time after years of use by a large user base. --- Originally reported at https://forum.arduino.cc/t/ide-2-3-2-message-installing-opta-board/1284278 I also remember seeing a prior comment about the issue, I believe in this repository, but I could not manage to find it.

Thanks for bringing the problem to my attention!

system · January 25, 2025, 11:01am

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