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I am trying to do some embedded programming for an online course. The IDE I had to use does not have a Linux version, so I am planning to use the ARM DS-5. It says it can be used with eclipse but I cannot figure out how to get them to work. I have Ubuntu 14.04. I read somewhere that the ARM-DS-5 wouldn't work with anything newer than indigo but that was from 2012 and am not sure how accurate that is now. Any help would be great.

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    Assuming this is the Community Edition, why not just get the version [prepackaged with Eclipse](http://ds.arm.com/ds-5-community-edition/getting-started/) instead of the [separate plugin](http://ds.arm.com/ds-5-community-edition/getting-started-update-site/)? – Notlikethat Jul 29 '15 at 10:56

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Depending on the use-case, you can pick one the three DS-5 variants.

  • Community Edition
  • Professional Edition
    • 30 days free evaluation.
    • Allows bare-metal (no OS) and Linux kernel and app debug.
    • Comes with ARM compiler, debugger along with GNU tools.
    • Comes with FVP, ARM's virtual hardware, allowing development without real hardware.
  • Ultimate edition
    • Everything in the Professional edition plus support for ARMv8, the ARM's architecture with 64-bit support.

You can visit here to see more detailed difference between various editions.

Note there is only one DS-5 IDE installer, which is available for download here. The variant is decided based on type of license chosen. So if you download DS-5 Ultimate for 30-day eval, it can converted to Community edition by changing the license at the end of eval period.

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  • Thanks! I downloaded something else from the da.arm.com site thinking it was the complete IDE packaged with Eclipse. – chamburger Jul 29 '15 at 14:54
  • @chamburger, I am curious to know which edition did you end up using? – Oak Bytes Jul 29 '15 at 15:44
  • I am not sure as i am not home but I think it was the version here http://ds.arm.com/downloads/ – chamburger Jul 29 '15 at 21:14
  • then I followed the instruction from here http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0478-/Bhcccdab.html section "3.2 Installing DS-5" this is the pdf I used http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.dui0478v/DUI0478V_getting_started_guide.pdf It showed up as an installed app on my computer as "Eclipse for ARM DS-5" but when I clicked it, it never ran, gonne try the community edition when I get home. – chamburger Jul 29 '15 at 21:19
  • @chamburger It may be worthwhile to see http://ds.arm.com/developer-resources/tutorials/, especially http://ds.arm.com/developer-resources/tutorials/getting-started-with-arm-ds-5-development-studio/ – Oak Bytes Jul 30 '15 at 11:15