How To Install micronucleus on Fedora 34

micronucleus is Flashing tool for USB devices with Micronucleus bootloader

Introduction

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

What is micronucleus

This package ships a “micronucleus” command line tool. It is used to upload programs to AVR ATtiny devices that utilize the Micronucleus boot loader.

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

Install micronucleus 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 micronucleus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install micronucleus

Install micronucleus 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 micronucleus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install micronucleus

How To Uninstall micronucleus on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove micronucleus

micronucleus Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/micronucleus
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/e6ab2cdce47090a195f43cf2bebbfe4b03b151
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-micronucleus.rules
/usr/share/doc/micronucleus
/usr/share/doc/micronucleus/Readme

References

Summary

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