arduino toolkit on x86_64 linux Debian/Ubuntu

Update:

I received an email from Ethan Bisset with a much nicer solution: just use the debian provided serial library instead of the one provided with the arduino software.

This is his recipe:
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1. Get arduino software\
2. apt-get install sun-java6-bin binutils-avr avr-libc gcc-avr librxtx-java\
3. Untar arduino software\
4. Delete <arduino>/lib/librxtxSerial.so\
5. Done!
   
   (below is the old entry:)
   
   Download the linux 32-bit arduino toolkit from the arduino toolkit download page and untar in a directory.
   
   Install the avr tools: apt-get install avr-libc binutils-avr gcc-avr
   
   Install “ia32-sun-java5-bin”. ( apt-get install ia32-sun-java5-bin )
   
   Adapt the “arduino” startup script script and replace java in it by
   
   /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-1.5.0-sun/bin/java
   
   Execute the “arduino” startup script. It works just fine now.
   
   Thats all.
   
   Many thanks to the Debian java packagers for providing this 32-bit compatibity jvm!\