Arduino IDE is installable with Ubuntu Make:
Install Ubuntu Make
for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS from official PPA ppa:lyzardking/ubuntu-make
:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lyzardking/ubuntu-make
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
PPA is needed because of two facts: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS does not have such package, package for 16.04 LTS does not support installation of Arduino.
for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and upcoming 18.10 from universe repository:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
Install Arduino IDE with Ubuntu Make
umake ide arduino
This will download Arduino IDE from official site and install it to ~/.local/share/umake/ide/arduino and set corresponding shortcuts and file associations for it.
You can repeat this command again to get newer version.
Note: do not forget to add your user to dialout group with sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make
umake ide arduino
usermod -a -G dialout $USER