Cannot find board descriptions in arduino-1.8.5 environment

[ipsavitsky]

Cannot find board descriptions in arduino-1.8.5 environment

[debrucer]

I have experimented with variations of the /d (directory) flag, as well as trying to copy several directory trees from one place to another, The most recent produced the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/.local/bin/ino", line 6, in
main()
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ino/runner.py", line 64, in main
e.process_args(args)
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ino/environment.py", line 263, in process_args
all_models = self.board_models()
File "/home/pi/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ino/environment.py", line 204, in board_models
subdict[key] = {}
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment

I plan on taking a look to see if there's anything I can hack, but, if anybody else has the solution, please. This is not what I want to be doing. I hope the message above tweaks someone's memory to provide a timely fix. Thank you.

[debrucer]

Without the flag mentioned above, the error message is as follows:

Searching for Board description file (boards.txt) ... FAILED
Board description file (boards.txt) not found. Searched in following places:

• /usr/local/share/arduino/hardware/arduino
• /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino

This is why I suspect the runner.py module.

[jieyouxu]

Also, for Arduino 1.8.7 on macs, the boards.txt path is incorrect; the lines inside Environment

if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
        arduino_dist_dir_guesses.insert(0, '/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Resources/Java')

should instead be something like

if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
        arduino_dist_dir_guesses.insert(0, '/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Java/hardware/arduino/avr')

since the Resources only contain localizations and icons resources.