Installing Arduino IDE on Ubuntu 20.04

The following guide describes how to install Arduino in Ubuntu very easily.
Everything will be done with a few commands issued in the console.

We launch the terminal and download the package from Andruino

wget https://www.arduino.cc/download_handler.php?f=/arduino-1.8.13-linux64.tar.xz

1	wget https://www.arduino.cc/download_handler.php?f=/arduino-1.8.13-linux64.tar.xz

A link to the latest available version can be found here:

The next step is unpacking :

sudo tar -Jxvf arduino-*.tar.xz -C /opt/

1	sudo tar -Jxvf arduino-*.tar.xz -C /opt/

For my version:

sudo tar -Jxvf arduino-1.8.13-linux64.tar.xz -C /opt/

1	sudo tar -Jxvf arduino-1.8.13-linux64.tar.xz -C /opt/

The last step is to run the installation script

sudo /opt/arduino-*/install.sh

1	sudo /opt/arduino-*/install.sh

In my case:

sudo /opt/arduino-1.8.13/install.sh

1	sudo /opt/arduino-1.8.13/install.sh

That's it The program is available from the menu of our applications.

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