Arduino IDE
The Arduino IDE is a development software targeted to ease the process of writing, building a flashing a software for an embedded platform. It is, of course, oriented to be used with Arduino boards but there are ways to make it compatible with other boards.
First step is to download the IDE from the Arduino web site: http://www.arduino.cc.
We will browse to Software > Downloads with the top menu:
On the next page we will choose the download option depending on our OS. The Arduino IDE is a Java application that run on Linux, MaxOS and Windows.
Next we will proceed with the installation the same way we normally do with other software. Depending on the selected option and OS we might need to have administrative privileges to install the software.
We will be shown a list of installation options. It is very important to install the USB driver, otherwise, we will not be able to flash our board. This option is not required (and not shown) for Linux systems.
Once installed we will run the program once and check we do have support for Arduino Leonardo boards.
