Board description file (boards.txt) not found.

[xiujunma]

Searching for Board description file (boards.txt) ... FAILED
Board description file (boards.txt) not found. Searched in following places: 
  - /Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/arduino
  - /usr/local/share/arduino/hardware/arduino
  - /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino

I'm using Arduino 1.5.2 beta, boards.txt is placed in /Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/arduino/avr/boards.txt.

[yosemitebandit]

@xiujunma -- I had that problem as well. The fork from rogue-hack-lab worked for me.

[xiujunma]

Thank you for sharing, I will try it later.

[insanity54]

I have this same problem and the fork from rogue-hack-lab did not solve the problem for me.

The issue for me was that my arduino files are in my home directory, and ino is not programmed to look for arduino files there. This solved the issue for me:

sudo cp -r ~/arduino-1.0.5 /usr/local/share/arduino

[lgruen]

If you're using Ubuntu or similar, "sudo apt-get install arduino" might do the trick alternatively.

[chrisspen]

@Igruen, The arduino package in the standard repo is ancient. I don't recommend using that unless it's absolutely necessary.

[chrisspen]

@insanity54 Note this won't work for the new arduino 1.5+ release. The folder structure is different, which ino apparently does not support. e.g. hardware/arduino/boards.txt is now at hardware/arduino/avr/boards.txt.

[AndyCross]

Is there a way to get ino to work with 1.5.8 BETA? I'm looking to use this with a Due board. Is 1.5.8 required for ino, or just the IDE?

[tonyc]

I'm running into this as well, on OSX. Anyone have some ideas?

[craigbeck]

+1 on OS X

$ ino build
Searching for Board description file (boards.txt) ... FAILED
Board description file (boards.txt) not found. Searched in following places: 
  - /Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/arduino
  - /usr/local/share/arduino/hardware/arduino
  - /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino

searching for boards.txt:

$ find /Applications/Arduino.app -iname boards.txt
/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/avr/boards.txt
/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/sam/boards.txt

It look like this code indicates it should find boards.txt under the avr/ directory but my install is not.

[marcu]

Install the Arduino IDE version 1.0.x and the problem is resolved.

[letterj]

Using the latest arduino version 1.6.3. on Mac System Version: OS X 10.10.3 (14D136)
Searching for Board description file (boards.txt) ... FAILED
Board description file (boards.txt) not found. Searched in following places:

• /Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/arduino
• /usr/local/share/arduino/hardware/arduino
• /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino

The file is actually located at /Application/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/avr/boards.txt

[chrisspen]

I just ran into this error again on a fresh install. Is inotools a dead project? I tried submitting a patch and it's been ignored. That's really frustrating, because inotools is infinitely easier to use than the horrible Arduino Gui.

[rsrini7]

Hi chrisspen ,
I have replaced your environment.py and i am getting below error. Any suggestion ?
make: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long
.build/uno/Makefile.deps:14: recipe for target '.build/uno/src/sketch.d' failed
make: *** [.build/uno/src/sketch.d] Error 127
Make failed with code 2

I am getting below error for the actual environment.py:

Searching for Board description file (boards.txt) ... /usr/local/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/boards.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/ino", line 6, in
main()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ino/runner.py", line 64, in main
e.process_args(args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ino/environment.py", line 263, in process_args
all_models = self.board_models()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ino/environment.py", line 204, in board_models
subdict[key] = {}
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment
ino build returned 256
127.0.0.1 - - [13/Jun/2015 06:49:56] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 400 -

[ErichBSchulz]

@lgruen - your trick worked for me thx

Having to install an old package when you've already got the latest install in your system isn't ideal tho...