It's an Eclipse based IDE mantained by Texas Instruments.

Recently TI began to build a version of its IDE for Linux however there are many things still broken.

MSP430 Launchpad is not yet supported (at least in 5.x version. 6.x version claim to be compatible with some launchpads), I advice you to use mspgcc and mspdebug, if you need an IDE you can use Eclipse and xPG plugin!

Currently latest version of CCS is 5.3, be sure that you have at least this version. NOTE: This howto is written for Debian Wheezy, it could be adapted for other distros using a bit of brain instead of copy-paste :)

1. Fix udev permission

   # nano /etc/udev/rules.d/71-ti-permissions.rules
   
   Add this row at top:
        SUBSYSTEM=="usb",ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device",ATTRS{idVendor}=="1cbe",ATTRS{idProduct}=="00fd",MODE:="0666"

2. Be sure that you are in plugdev and dialout groups

   # usermod -a -G plugdev YOURUSERNAME
   # usermod -a -G plugdev YOURUSERNAME

3. Download FTDI drivers for Linux here and unpack it
4. Copy FTDI library in your lib folder

   # cp WHERE_YOU_EXTRACT/release/build/i386/libftd2xx.so.1.1.12 /usr/lib (make sure to copy 32bit version, ccs need the 32 version regardless if you have a 64bit installation)
   # ln -s /usr/lib/libftd2xx.so.1.1.12 /usr/lib/libftd2xx.so

5. Install 32bit version of libusb and link it to /usr/lib

   # apt-get install libusb-1.0-0:i386
   # ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libusb-1.0.so.0.1.0 /usr/lib/libusb-1.0.so

6. Reboot&Enjoy

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