RFduino now support Linux and installation is straight forward.
in the proxy settings change server to rfduino.com and keep other settings as it is and click OK.
in "Additional Board Manager URLs, add "http://rfduino.com/package_rfduino166_index.json" and click OK
Step1: Open terminal in ubuntu by pressing Alt+Ctrl+T
Step2: Type the following commands
cd ~ mkdir Arduino cd Arduino wget http://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-1.6.3-linux64.tar.xz tar -xf arduino-1.6.3-linux64.tar.xz sudo apt-get install default-jre
key in password when prompted.
No driver installation required for Ubuntu.
Step3: Open Arduino by typing the following command
cd arduino-1.6.3 ./arduino
The current version is 1.6.3. It will be different for different versions.
Step4: Select Menu File->Preference
in "Additional Board Manager URLs, add "http://rfduino.com/package_rfduino166_index.json" and click OK
Step5: Select Menu Tools->Board->Board Manager and in the window that is opened select RFduino and select install.
It will take a while to download and install files there are 2 set of files one ~ 36MB and other ~52MB
Step6: Select Menu Tools->Board->RFduino
Step7: Select Menu Port->/dev/ttyUSB0
USB menu item will be different in different machine.
Thats it.
Some examples can be found in Menu File->Examples section for RFduino.
Happy Programming.
