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HI Guys

I am very new to all this. I have installed the Arduino IDE on Ubuntu and now can not add ESP8266 capablity to it. There is no filed for me to add the "http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json" to its Addon Preference.

Could someone help?

Thanks

I use IDE 1.6.8 on Ubuntu 14.04 and it works fine. Which IDE version are you using? Which Ubuntu version?

The Adafruit tutorial has screen caps of the installation process.

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huz ... or-greater

using the git version is the way i like to do it on debian:

https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino#using-git-version

also if you installed arduino from apt, it'll be 1.0.5 not 1.6.x that esp8266 needs.