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I have downloaded the new Arduino IDE 2.0 Beta and extracted the zip into a suitable directory.

If I open the directory in Nautilus and double-click on arduino-ide I get a warning that the "arduino-ide" cannot be opened and that there is no software installed that for the datatype "common library". (Sorry, but I translated that warning from the German, on an English language machine it might be phrased differently.")

However if I open a terminal and cd to the directory containing arduino-ide and then type ./arduino-ide the IDE launches and everything works as expected..

The file arduino-idea is executable, otherwise it wouldn't run in the terminal. I am using Ubuntu 20.10.

SteveInBavaria
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You should create custom desktop launcher for Arduino IDE beta version and then use it.

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/

cat <<EOF > ~/.local/share/applications/arduino-beta.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Arduino IDE beta
Icon=/home/$USER/path-to/arduino-beta/lib/arduino_icon.ico
Exec=/home/$USER/path-to/arduino-beta/arduino-executable
Comment=The Arduino Software IDE
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
EOF

Note: adjust Exec and Icon paths before copying and pasting above code to terminal.

N0rbert
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