Arduino IDE 1.8.9 does not install correctly on

[CedricMi]

Arduino IDE 1.8.9 does not install correctly on Debian distributions, or at least I tried: Ubuntu 18.04.2 and Pengwin.
With sudo ./install.sh one ends up with:

Adding desktop shortcut and menu item for Arduino IDE...
rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/arduino': No such file or directory
Removing symlink failed. Hope that's OK. If not then rerun as root with sudo.

rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/arduino': No such file or directory
Removing symlink failed. Hope that's OK. If not then rerun as root with sudo.

Done!

The files are not copied correctly to whatever directory (/home/Arduino, /home/.arduino15, /usr/local/bin/arduino ?) they are supposed to be copied.

Please fix.

Also when launched from a terminal window

Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS:
Gtk-Message: timestamp: Failed to load module "Canberra-gtk-module"

[facchinm]

Do you have the folder /usr/local/bin/ ? In that case, launching with sudo should create the right symlinks (there). It first tries to remove but continues if it doesn't succeed. The GTK warning is originated by java and there's very little we can do about it.

[CedricMi]

The folder /usr/local/bin/ is present.
Inside, there is arduino, but it isn't a folder, it is a file!

[facchinm]

It's fine, since it's a symlink to the executable you extracted in your local directory you can now launch arduino from the commandline. If you prefer doing things graphically, the install script should also have created an icon on the desktop.

[CedricMi]

• The icon on the desktop doesn't work: There was an error launching the application.
  https://imgur.com/8BdHBbP
• If I remove the extracted archive, nothing works, from CL or GUI. That can't be right. Have you tried to install it?

[facchinm]

If I remove the extracted archive, nothing works, from CL or GUI. That can't be right. Have you tried to install it?

This is expected, the installer just creates links to the extracted archive

The icon on the desktop doesn't work: There was an error launching the application.

No idea what is happening here, but may be related to the deletion of the extracted archive

The installer just creates icons, links and files association. The real "installation" is self contained in the extracted archive (which should not be deleted)

[calocedrus]

I have the exact same issues as CedricMi (ubuntu 18.04), following the same installation procedure. I didn't worry about the warning in the terminal though.
I have tried the installation in a local folder in /home/user as well as in /opt (with sudo rights), all gave:

Adding desktop shortcut and menu item for Arduino IDE...
rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/arduino': No such file or directory
Removing symlink failed. Hope that's OK. If not then rerun as root with sudo.

rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/arduino': No such file or directory
Removing symlink failed. Hope that's OK. If not then rerun as root with sudo.

Done!

The desktop icon doesn't look like an icon and shows its name with extension arduino-arduinoide.desktop (it's unusual to have an icon with the .desktop extension visible!).

@facchinm

The icon on the desktop doesn't work: There was an error launching the application.

No idea what is happening here, but may be related to the deletion of the extracted archive

This could have been a reason but I (obviously :-) ) didn't delete the extracted archive.

This may be a bug in the installation file / procedure.

[calocedrus]

Ok well, had a look in the install.sh, the cannot remove /usr/local.../ message is totally normal on a system without prior arduino installation, since the install script runs an uninstall procedure which tries to remove a symlink which doesn't exist. So this can be ignored.

Remains the weird desktop icon which doesn't start.

[per1234]

Note that the spurious "rm: cannot remove '/usr/local/bin/arduino'" warnings on the first install are removed by #8781

[calocedrus]

And finally a way to get the icon to work:

sudo chown yourusername /path/to/icon/arduino-arduinoide.desktop

Double click and trust the launch.
Here you go 👍
All is well now (but there may be some tweaks to bring in the script to avoid this).

PS: in a hurry to post a solution i misplaced yourusername vs path in the chown command, obviously it wouldn't have worked as I had put it, now edited, thanks for noticing nhphuong91

[facchinm]

I've been finally able to test on a clean Ubuntu 18.10; the user installation is fine (just reports warnings on not being able to symlink to /usr/local/bin. Sudo installation though has the icon problem; to solve it I just pushed c3675a8 to fix this automatically. I think the issue can be closed as solved (in master).

[nhphuong91]

And finally a way to get the icon to work:

sudo chown /path/to/icon/arduino-arduinoide.desktop yourusername

Double click and trust the launch.
Here you go +1
All is well now (but there may be some tweaks to bring in the script to avoid this).

I think it should be:
sudo chown YourUserName /path/to/icon/arduino-arduinoide.desktop
otherwise chown would give error invalid user: ‘/path/to/icon/arduino-arduinoide.desktop’

[KikiCS]

Had the same problem installing today on RaspberryPi with Ubuntu Mate, solved with @nhphuong91 command:
sudo chown UserName /home/UserName/Desktop/arduino-arduinoide.desktop