How to Install and Uninstall firmware-microbit-micropython-dl Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "firmware-microbit-micropython-dl" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install firmware-microbit-micropython-dl on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "firmware-microbit-micropython-dl" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall firmware-microbit-micropython-dl on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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3. Information about the firmware-microbit-micropython-dl package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: firmware-microbit-micropython-dl
Architecture: all
Version: 1.2.4+dfsg-4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/python
Source: python-uflash
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 17
Depends: ca-certificates, wget
Recommends: python3-uflash
Conflicts: firmware-microbit-micropython
Filename: pool/universe/p/python-uflash/firmware-microbit-micropython-dl_1.2.4+dfsg-4_all.deb
Size: 4028
MD5sum: 2af0785d071a5276514362baa8ebcaf8
SHA1: 914addcfe9f63c035502b7c20fb6e949ed4e9ca5
SHA256: 843a4e218ca5271e4b3078763baf8ff03acbe8f9586c7eaf672286026e948de1
SHA512: 4fcfa814b7b924f44afe31faa99d2136f8064ca00bc28da84c0bf5443798a08b04b0906a5706adfc54ff73017ece1c5e25f08404d30e33f779c00216e82b508a
Homepage: https://github.com/ntoll/uflash
Description-en: micro:bit MicroPython runtime downloader
This empty package will, at the time of installation, download the
current MicroPython runtime for the micro:bit as bundled with uflash
upstream.
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The firmware image will be downloaded from https://github.com/ntoll/uflash
and saved to /usr/share/firmware-microbit-micropython/firmware.hex
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Note that this package will not flash MicroPython onto the micro:bit; that can
be done with the uflash utility (package: python3-uflash).
Description-md5: d455205dc5f41591864fb1e0b29a5773