Install Arduino IDE on Chromebook
After turning on Linux on the Chromebook, you can access the Linux environment via the terminal app.
Please follow the following steps to install the Arduino IDE:
Check the type of your OS version

Download package
Open the website (www.arduino.cc/en/software) and download the corresponding type of Legacy Arduino IDE:

Installation
After downloading complete, set the folder Downloads in the file browser to share with Linux, as mentioned above. Use the following commands to install the Arduino IDE, e.g., arduino-1.8.19-linux64.tar.xz is the downloading file.
cd /mnt/chromeos/MyFiles/Downloads/
sudo apt-get install xz-utils
sudo tar -C /opt -xf arduino-1.8.19-linux64.tar.xz
cd /opt
ls
cd arduino-1.8.19/
ls
sudo ./install.sh
Set up the Arduino IDE development environment for the mainboard
You can open the Arduino IDE as follows:

NyBoard
For more details, please refer to Upload Sketch for NyBoard.
After using the USB uploader and USB data cable to connect the NyBoard and Chromebook, you will see a prompt: Please click Connect to Linux.

and check in the Settings interface, and it should be enabled as follows:


BiBoard
For more details, please refer to Upload Sketch for BiBoard.
After using the USB data cable to connect the BiBoard and Chromebook, you will see a prompt: Please click Connect to Linux.

and check in the Settings interface, and it should be enabled as follows:


Use the following commands to install the library pyserial for uploading the sketch for BiBoard
sudo apt install python3 pip
python3 -V
pip -V
cd /usr/lib/python3.11/
sudo rm EXTERNALLY-MANAGED
sudo pip3 install pyserial
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