raschemmel:
I have installed the latest version of avrdude.
I keep hearing about avrdude. I googled it and it says it's a dos command line program. Do I need it ?
The reality is it is a command line world.
The IDE is just a pretty GUI wrapper on top of the command line programs that do the real work.
All the GNU tools are all command line,
c-preprocessor, compiler, linker, archiver, binutils to convert to hex records,
avrdude to do the uploading, etc...
In more typical environments, make would be used to do the build,
but the IDE developers have decided to re-ivent the world and have
tried to mimic the rule based types of things that make was designed to handle.
If you turn on the verbose output in the IDE
[File]->[Prefernces]
you can watch the IDE GUI fire off and run all the command line programs.
--- bill