[C.CC USERS] Problems transfering firmware to arduino

[afromm]

Hi,

I just found the plumbing and Occam-pi programming environment for 
arduino, and it seems to be just what I need for my project. So I tried 
to install the Software but without any success. Here are the details:

My System: Ubuntu Linux precise/amd64. The Arduino-IDE works great with
my Arduino: Sainsmart Mega 2560


Here is what I tried to get Occam-pi to work.

First get the whole thing in my native system:  No chance, because of 
the amd64 platform doesn't allow to install the i386 version of many 
libs without throwing many applications away.

So I set up an i386-chroot. The Occam-pi environment installed 
flawlessly, but couldn't get the firmware on my Arduino.
The error-message I got is the same as Christian Lewis gets on his system:

Uploading Plumbing firmware
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding


After that I tried to install the Windows-Version running on a 
Virtualbox Windows XP (32) System. There the error message was that 
avrdude couldn't sync with the Arduino. The Arduino-System could upload 
a sketch to the Board under Windows, but got a checksum error after 
uploading the sketch.

Ah, and yes, I tried many times the uplaod process, disconecting the 
Arduino in between and reseting it very often.


Any help would be great to finaly get the Ocam-pi-environment running to 
start coding for my project.

Thanks in advance!

Andreas