How To Install ampy on Fedora 34

ampy is Command line tool to interact with a MicroPython board over a serial connection

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ampy on Fedora 34.

What is ampy

Adafruit MicroPython tool is a command line tool to interact with a MicroPython board over a serial connection. Ampy is meant to be a simple command line tool to manipulate files and run code on a MicroPython board over its serial connection. With ampy you can send files from your computer to a MicroPython board’s file system, download files from a board to your computer, and even send a Python script to a board to be executed. Note that ampy by design is meant to be simple and does not support advanced interaction like a shell or terminal to send input to a board.

We can use yum or dnf to install ampy on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ampy.

Install ampy on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ampy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ampy

Install ampy on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install ampy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ampy

How To Uninstall ampy on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the ampy package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ampy

ampy Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ampy
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/files.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/files.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/pyboard.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/pyboard.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/files.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ampy/pyboard.py
/usr/share/doc/ampy
/usr/share/doc/ampy/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ampy
/usr/share/licenses/ampy/LICENSE

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ampy on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.