AVR Pocket Programmer does not provide a Port

Using Arduino IDE 1.x
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I'm trying to use the AVR Pocket Programmer with the Arduino IDE (1.6.3 and 1.6.5) with no luck.
I have an Arduino Mini 05 which I'm finding impossible to program. The programmer I have is a Sparkfun AVR Pocket Programmer, which lsusb shows as1781:0c9f Multiple Vendors USBtinyThe Arduino IDE has the Pocket Programmer in its list of programmers but it is not available as a port, such as /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyACM0.
I have a udev rule /etc/udev/rules.d/49-USBtiny.rules:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="1781", ATTR{idProduct}=="0c9f", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0666"

Nothing matches 1781:0c9f in /lib64/udev/rules.d.

avrdude sees the programmer and can use it.
I am a member of plugdev.

What is needed for the Pocket Programmer to provide a port for the IDE?

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a driver? for the usb2serial used by the programmer?
or just use "upload with programmer"
Shift + button upload ?

regards

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Is that based on USBTinyISP? Those don't project as a serial port, they do VUSB like the USBAsp and avrdude talks to them over USB without any serial port involved. You don't need to select anything from the port menu.