How To Install esptool on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install esptool on Fedora 34.
What is esptool
esptool.py A command line utility to communicate with the ROM bootloader in Espressif ESP8266 WiFi microcontroller. Allows flashing firmware, reading back firmware, querying chip parameters, etc. Developed by the community, not by Espressif Systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install esptool on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install esptool.
Install esptool 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 esptool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install esptool
Install esptool 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 esptool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install esptool
How To Uninstall esptool on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the esptool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove esptool
esptool Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/espefuse
/usr/bin/espefuse.py
/usr/bin/espsecure
/usr/bin/espsecure.py
/usr/bin/esptool
/usr/bin/esptool.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/espefuse.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/espefuse.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/espsecure.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/espsecure.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/esptool.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/esptool.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/espefuse.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/espsecure.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/esptool-2.8-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/esptool-2.8-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/esptool-2.8-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/esptool-2.8-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/esptool-2.8-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/esptool-2.8-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/esptool.py
/usr/share/doc/esptool
/usr/share/doc/esptool/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/esptool
/usr/share/licenses/esptool/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install esptool on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.