Ubuntu – How to install latest Arduino IDE?

arduinosoftware installation

As we know Arduino has non-official Snap which can access serial ports only if installed as classic (but not indicated in snap find output):

$ snap find arduino
Name                  Version  Developer  Notes  Summary
arduino-mhall119      1.8.5   mhall119   -      Arduino IDE

Arduino packages from repositories are outdated:

Package arduino

trusty (14.04LTS) (electronics): AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries [universe]
1:1.0.5+dfsg2-2: all
xenial (16.04LTS) (electronics): AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries [universe]
2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4: all
artful (electronics): AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries [universe]
2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4.1: all
bionic (electronics): AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries [universe]
2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4.1: all

According to official Arduino site the latest version of Arduino IDE is 1.8.9.

One can download IDE from official site, extract and install it with install.sh. Then when newer version will be released repeat this action. But it looks difficult and not user-friendly.

How can I get latest Arduino IDE installed in user-friendly way?

Best Answer

Arduino IDE is installable with Ubuntu Make:

Install Ubuntu Make
- for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from official PPA ppa:lyzardking/ubuntu-make:
```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lyzardking/ubuntu-make
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
```
  PPA is needed because of two fact: package for 16.04 LTS does not support installation of Arduino.
Note: umake from 18.04 Universe repo may fail installing arduino ide. If so, you will need to purge ubuntu-make and install from the PPA. If this is the case you will also need to delete ~/.local/share/umake with rm -rf ~/.local/share/umake. See this QA for more info.
- for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and newer systems from universe repository:
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
```
Install Arduino IDE with Ubuntu Make
```
umake electronics arduino
```
or for 18.04 (without PPA, may fail)
```
umake ide arduino
```
This will download Arduino IDE from official site and install it to ~/.local/share/umake/ide/arduino and set corresponding shortcuts and file associations for it.

You can repeat this command again to get newer version.

Note: do not forget to add your user to dialout group with sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER .

Install the latest version from Ubuntu Make (on GitHub)

Ubuntu Make is a command line tool which allows you to download the latest version of popular developer tools on your installation

Install Ubuntu Make

sudo apt install ubuntu-make

If not using Ubuntu 18.04+ or want the latest versions:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make
sudo apt update

Install Arduino IDE with umake
```
umake electronics arduino
```

_{Warning: umake ide arduino is deprecated.}

This will install it on ~/.local/share/umake/electronics/arduino. If you don't get the shortcut available you'll need to run install.sh found there.

Some other software options (like Eagle or Sublime) are not free software. I recommend instead Fritzing and Atom.io.

Install the latest version from arduino.cc

Just follow official guide (or Canonical's tutorial):

Download the Arduino Software (IDE). lscpu will tell you if 32 or 64 bits. If unsure use 32 bits.
Extract the package (from terminal tar -xvf arduino-1.8.2-linux64.tar.xz).
Run the installation script (./install.sh).

Install the latest version using snap package

sudo snap install arduino

If you need any other Python 3 dependencies other than serial, you can install them inside the snap sandbox using the arduino.pip command.

Notes

Before installing you might move the folder with binaries to /opt/ or /usr/local/.
For ESP8266 see this installation instructions.
Installer don't create Launcher icon for me: Just drag it (arduino-arduinoide.desktop) from Desktop:

You also have
- Arduino Web Editor
- PlatformIO IDE, an extension for Atom.io or Visual Studio Code.
With the latest versions come newer features like the "Additional Boards Manager URLs" on Preferences (to add ESP8266 board):

Ubuntu – Arduino IDE not connecting to microcontroller

I had this problem too, it turns out it was caused by the Serial Monitor being set to speed 14400. Since you can't change the setting without having a working serial port, the only way to do it is to exit the Arduino UI and edit the preferences.txt file (in Unix, it's in ~/.arduino/preferences.txt). Look for Serial.debug_rate and change it to 9600. Restart the Arduino UI and try uploading a simple sketch (eg. 'blink') and see if it's fix the problem.

I'm not sure why this would happen - I've used 14400 and never had a problem. I guess it's just one of those weird problems that never seems to have a repeatable reason?