looking to solve this error. didn't have it before, now I have it. I have read on various forums people having the same problem but the solution is always "use the reset button" the following response is "already tried that" then the solution is always "stupid me, fixed it" lol so i'm trying to figure what i'm doing wrong.

With respect to can't find programmer id "arduino" it means that and it is not a board or communication issue (normally). What version of the Arduino IDE are you using?

If you run,

avrdude -c asdfg

It will list the programmers that it is aware of, if arduino is not listed there then that is your problem.

David

I am running arduino ide 18.

The error lists all of the available arduino programmers. I am using the usbttl cable from makerbot. I am very fish out of water with any of the programming. if arduino is not listed how do I fix that? should it be using arduino anyway?

i solved the issue by copying new stuff over everything in the sanguino area of the arduino folder. So no real answer on what caused the problem but this worked to fix it.

probably nothing called arduino in your avrdude.conf, which is a file that lists all the programmers it knows of and (ostensibly) how to talk to them. new file probably has a define for it. diff or grep are your friends

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Wooden Mendel
Teacup Firmware

I know this is a bit belated, but anyone who runs into this problem should be able to resolve it by using the latest version of avrdude 5.10 which can be downloaded from [download.savannah.gnu.org]

I ran into this problem with the avrdude package provided for Debian 5.0.6 which was avrdude 5.5 and did not include the programmer definitions for arduino which avrdude 5.10 has.

One other thing to do if using the Debian 5.0.6 arduino package is to change the symbolic links in /usr/share/arduino/hardware/tools (as root) to point to avrdude 5.10, e.g.:

# cd /usr/share/arduino/hardware/tools
# ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-05-01 00:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2011-05-01 00:53 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2011-05-01 00:53 avrdude -> ../../../../bin/avrdude
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2011-05-01 00:53 avrdude.conf -> /etc/avrdude.conf
# mv avrdude avrdude-5.5
# mv avrdude.conf avrdude-5.5.conf
# ln -s -T /avrdude-5.10/bin/avrdude avrdude
# ln -s -T /avrdude-5.10/etc/avrdude.conf avrdude.conf
# ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-05-15 01:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2011-05-01 00:53 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2011-05-15 01:42 avrdude -> /avrdude-5.10/bin/avrdude
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2011-05-01 00:53 avrdude-5.5 -> ../../../../bin/avrdude
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2011-05-01 00:53 avrdude-5.5.conf -> /etc/avrdude.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 2011-05-15 01:43 avrdude.conf -> /avrdude-5.10/etc/avrdude.conf