I had this tutorial among my documentation and when I found it I decided to publish it in case anyone is now starting with this fabulous little gadget, it is simply a few simple steps to be able to work with the Arduino. We are going to carry out the entire process from Debian, but it is applicable with certain tweaks to almost all distributions. The first thing is to download it from its official website, currently the latest version is 0015, and save it in a suitable place.