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How to install Processing 3 in Ubuntu 14.04
06/12/2015 by J. Pérez de Lama
It took me a little while to find out, so here is a little straight forward tutorial
(1) Check if you have Java (prerequisite) either search for openjdk-7-jre in the software center, or type in a terminal to install it:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
(2) Download Processing (in my case it’s Linux-64 bit) into the Downloads folder from https://processing.org/download/?processing
The file name for Linux64-bit is: processing-3.0.1-linux64.tgz
* You need to pay attention in future Processing versions to type the right file name in the terminal commands below. Here the name of the decompressed file becomes processing-3.0.1
(3) Decompress (extract) tgz file in the Downloads folder by double clicking on it.
Now open a terminal and go on:
(4) Relocate Processing into the System Folder. First change permissions:
sudo su -c «chown -R root:root Downloads/processing-3.0.1»
(5) Then move from Downloads to /opt folder:
sudo su -c «mv Downloads/processing-3.0.1 /opt/processing»
(6) Add Processing to Ubuntu Path
sudo su -c «ln -s /opt/processing/processing /usr/local/bin/processing»
(7) To run Processing type in terminal:
processing
Thanks to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO3aDJTVooU