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Installing nRF Util on Raspberry Pi OS
1. Installing nRF Util on Raspberry Pi OS
Running “sudo pip install nrfutil” on a standard Raspberry Pi OS will currently fail (version 6.2.0 wll throw an error). Until this is corrected in pip, we need to use a workaround. That work around is to specifically install an older version.
On a fresh Raspbian / Raspberry Pi OS install:
1. Install nrfutil into the Python 2 environment (default) and make sure you use sudo:
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sudo python get-pip2.py
sudo pip2 install nrfutil==5.2.0
nrfutil 5.2.0 should now have installed successfully.
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