How To Install stm32flash on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stm32flash on Ubuntu.

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. 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

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, 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 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

Dependencies

stm32flash have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• stm32flash website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install stm32flash package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.