Downloading and installing the new Arduino IDE for ESP8266

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By eric6286
#45942 Hello,

Arduino team just released an experimental build for ARM platforms.

I've downloaded and tested it, and all seems ok at this time.

The ESP8266 team has also updated his package to 2.2.0, with ARM support :)

So, it is now possible to work with Arduino IDE and ESP8266 on a RPi (mine is a RPi2) without cryptics compilation subtilities and voodoo rituals.

Just one thing : the "board manager" way of install for ESP8266 package didn't worked (a problem with access rights when creating gcc folder :?:

I use the "git method" instead and all was ok.

Regards
Eric