Installing Atmel SAM-BA on Ubuntu 14.04

Playing with a SAMA5D3 XPLAINED board and want to setup the ATMEL SAM-BA tool so I can update the linux version.  The following steps are taking from this pdf link and this link.  You will need an Atmel account or a guest account to download the SAM-BA tool and the patch (patch7).

First install 32 bit libraries:

# sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install libxss1:i386 libxft2:i386

now add your ubuntu username to group for dialout so you can access the USB (last line checks that it got added) 

# cd ~
# sudo adduser <username> dialout
# cat /etc/group | grep dialout

now install SAM-BA either by downloading from the ATMEL website or using the ftp link below, I cd into the /opt directory before this step but you can save it wherever you like.

# wget ftp://ftp.linux4sam.org/pub/sam-ba/sam-ba_2.12.zip

unzip the file, cd into the samba_cdc_cdc_linux folder  and then patch it with the patch file (patch 7) from the website (ftp doesn't have the latest patch file).

# sudo patch -pl < patch7.diff

logout or restart to get the USB dialout to work and then execute with the following (make sure the file is executable (chmod +x samba):

Mine was saved in /opt but just put the patch where you placed it.  Also remove jumper JP5 and reset your SAMA5D3 XPLAINED board before running samba.

# sudo /opt/sam-ba_cdc_cdc_linux/sam-ba

then play as you like.