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, I advice you to use mspgcc and mspdebug!

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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