How To Install stm32flash on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stm32flash
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is stm32flash
stm32flash is:
stm32flash is a flashing program for the STM32 ARM processors using the ST serial bootloader compliant with application note AN3155.
Features:
- device identification
- write to flash/RAM
- read from flash/RAM
- auto-detect Intel hex or raw binary input format with option to force binary
- flash from binary file
- save flash to binary file
- verify and retry up to N times on failed writes
- start execution at specified address
- software reset the device when finished if -g not specified
- resume already initialized connection (for when reset fails)
- GPIO signalling
- I²C support
There are three methods to install stm32flash
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install stm32flash Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stm32flash
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stm32flash
Install stm32flash Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stm32flash
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stm32flash
Install stm32flash Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install stm32flash
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stm32flash
How To Uninstall stm32flash on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the stm32flash
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stm32flash
Uninstall stm32flash And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stm32flash
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stm32flash
Remove stm32flash Configurations and Data
To remove stm32flash
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stm32flash
Remove stm32flash configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stm32flash
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stm32flash
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stm32flash
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.