arduino software package provides AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install arduino
arduino is installed in your system.
Make ensure the arduino package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep arduino *
You will get with arduino package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Electronics |
| Package | arduino |
| Version | 1:1.0+dfsg-9 |
| Description | AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries |
| Sub Section | Electronics |