How To Install ampy on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ampy on Fedora 36.
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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ampy.
Install ampy on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ampy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ampy
Install ampy on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 36
To uninstall only the ampy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ampy
ampy Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/ampy
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/adafruit_ampy-1.0.5-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/cli.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/cli.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/files.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/files.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/pyboard.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/__pycache__/pyboard.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/files.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ampy/pyboard.py
/usr/share/doc/ampy
/usr/share/doc/ampy/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ampy
/usr/share/licenses/ampy/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ampy on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).