Setting up Eclipse IDE for AVR Programming on Ubuntu

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Installing Eclipse

You can download the latest version of eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org/

You need a functioning JAVA JRE installed to run eclipse

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-9-jre openjdk-9-jdk

Depending on your Ubuntu version, you might have to change the openjdk versions to a version available in your repository. (i.e. Ubuntu 16.04.1 doesn’t have version 7)

 

Install AVR Eclipse Plugin:

In Eclipse go to “Help” -> “Install new Software”
AVR-Plugin:
Name: AVR Eclipse Plugin
URL: http://avr-eclipse.sourceforge.net/updatesite/

 

Install avr dependencies, gcc-avr, avrdude, etc..

 
sudo apt-get install binutils-avr gcc-avr avr-libc avarice simulavr avrdude gcc build-essential libncurses5-dev uisp avra avrdude-doc gdb-avr libusbprog0 usbprog usbprog-gui avrp

Setup udev rules

This is necessary to allow eclipse to access the programmer.

Note that you have to be part of the group “users”, either add your user to the group using:

sudo adduser username users

or omit ‘GROUP=”users”,’ in the config file

Create file “/etc/udev/rules.d/usbprog.rules”

# Please test and place config for other programmers here
# JTAGICE mkII 
ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2103", GROUP="users", MODE="0666" 
# AVRISP mkII 
ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2104", GROUP="users", MODE="0666" 
# Dragon
ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2107", GROUP="users", MODE="0666"
# USBTiny
ATTR{idVendor}=="1781", ATTR{idProduct}=="0c9f", GROUP="users", MODE="0666"
# USBasp
ATTR{idVendor}=="16c0", ATTR{idProduct}=="05dc", GROUP="users", MODE="0666"

Reload udev rules:

sudo /sbin/udevadm control --reload-rules

If you are using a different programmer, you might want to add the following lines:

KERNEL=="ttyUSB[0-9]*",MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="ttyACM[0-9]*",MODE="0666"

This allows any user on your system to access any devices starting with “ttyUSB” or “ttyACM”, which also applies for most USB to UART converters, ArduinoISP, etc.