Cduino Prerequisites

The following hardware must be available:

Arduino Duemilanove or Arduino Uno with USB programming cable. If you use an older duemilanove, some variable settings may need to be tweaked away from the defaults (which assume a Mega328P chip).
If you want to use in-system programming (ISP), an AVRISPmkII or clone is needed. Probably any programmer supported by avrdude could be made to work with a trivial tweak or two to generic.mk, but I don't own any other so I can't test them.

The following programs must be installed:

GNU AVR GCC compiler (debian package: gcc-avr)
GNU AVR binutils (debian package: binutils-avr)
GNU AVR libc (debian package: avr-libc)
avrdude (debian package: avrdude)
screen for terminal-style communication with the arduino (debian package: screen)
If you don't want to have to press the reset button on the arduino every time you program using the arduino bootloader method, you'll need the Device::SerialPort perl module (debian package: libdevice-serialport-perl ).

The AVR GCC compiler, toolchain and libc are a bit tricky to compile. Its probably best to use the versions provided by your linux distribution. If you do otherwise, you'll probably have to tweak some flags in the generic.mk file to tell it where things are, I haven't done this myself.

The avrdude program is easy to build.

The screen program is available as a package for all distributions.

The avrdude program has its own dependencies: it requries at least access to a USB serial device. If in-system programming (ISP) with an AVRISP MkII device is going to be done, the libusb library is also required. Most modern linux distrubutions probably provide these prerequisites by default.

The Make program provided by this package attempts to detect and report on missing software dependencies and untested dependency versions.