How To Install dfu-programmer on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dfu-programmer
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is dfu-programmer
dfu-programmer is:
A Linux based command-line programmer for Atmel chips with a USB bootloader supporting in-system programming.
This is a mostly Device Firmware Update (DFU)-1.0-compliant user-space application. This program was created because the Atmel FLIP program for flashing devices does not run on Linux and because standard DFU loaders do not work for Atmel chips.
There are three methods to install dfu-programmer
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dfu-programmer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dfu-programmer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dfu-programmer
Install dfu-programmer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dfu-programmer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dfu-programmer
Install dfu-programmer 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 dfu-programmer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dfu-programmer
How To Uninstall dfu-programmer on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the dfu-programmer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dfu-programmer
Uninstall dfu-programmer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dfu-programmer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dfu-programmer
Remove dfu-programmer Configurations and Data
To remove dfu-programmer
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dfu-programmer
Remove dfu-programmer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dfu-programmer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dfu-programmer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dfu-programmer
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.