Unable to install IDE 1.6.10 in Ubuntu (16.04) from github

[JulyJim]

After following the published procedure ( Ardiuno,cc Learning Install Arduino on Ubuntu Linux) how to install from Github I am unable to select "Due"' as board. ..... Open Ubuntu Software Center and search for Arduino. Alternatively, you can install via the command line by running the following in a Terminal

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install arduino arduino-core

The above installs a package from the Ubuntu software repositories, which currently is the old Arduino version 1.0.5. ...

The procedure indeed installs Arduino version 1.0.5. (?) which does not have "Board Manager" menu option.

[cmaglie]

1.0.5 is an ancient version, the support for the Due has been introduced starting from 1.5.x

ARDUINO 1.0.5 - 2013.05.15

[JulyJim]

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install arduino arduino-core

Thanks, so it looks as the command "update" is the real issue? Can you confirm that much?

[matthijskooijman]

The issue is that the Debian / Ubuntu maintainers have not included the latest versions of Arduino in their repositories (for various reasons). For this reason, using apt-get to install Arduino is not recommended, and you are better off downloading and unzipping it directly from arduino.cc.

[JulyJim]

downloading and unzipping it directly from arduino.cc produces SAME results

Here is what I see in Terminal

jim@jim-desktop:/usr/share$ arduino The program 'arduino' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt install arduino jim@jim-desktop:/usr/share$ sudo apt install arduino Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: arduino 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,164 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,727 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package arduino. (Reading database ... 200611 files and directories currently installed.)

**Is this what you are talking about? This would be easy to spot in correct arduino script I'll try to download from arduino.cc to verify

Preparing to unpack .../arduino_2%3a1.0.5+dfsg2-4_all.deb ...**

Unpacking arduino (2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2ubuntu0.1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up arduino (2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4) ... jim@jim-desktop:/usr/share$ arduino jim@jim-desktop:/usr/share$

Thanks for you assistance

[matthijskooijman]

You just posted the output of apt-get, while I just explained to not use it. I don't see you're actually listening at all, so I'll not invest further time into this. Good luck!

[sandeepmistry]

@VaclavSal please follow https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Linux

Questions like this should be asked on the forum (http://forum.arduino.cc), Github issues is not a place for general support, only for reporting issues with the IDE and AVR + SAM cores.

[JulyJim]

I followed this process:

If you don’t find the option to run the script from the contextual menu, you have to open a Terminal window and move into the arduino-1.6.x folder. Type the command ./install.sh and wait for the process to finish. You should find a new icon on your desktop.

It does installs new icon on the Desktop but that is all, no other software is installed. Executing the icon does nothing.