How to Install and Uninstall firmware-microbit-micropython-dl Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 11,2024

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

Please follow the instructions below to install firmware-microbit-micropython-dl on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall firmware-microbit-micropython-dl on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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3. Information about the firmware-microbit-micropython-dl package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: firmware-microbit-micropython-dl
Architecture: all
Version: 1.2.4+dfsg-8
Priority: optional
Section: universe/python
Source: python-uflash
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Python Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 18
Depends: ca-certificates, wget
Recommends: python3-uflash
Conflicts: firmware-microbit-micropython
Enhances: python3-uflash
Filename: pool/universe/p/python-uflash/firmware-microbit-micropython-dl_1.2.4+dfsg-8_all.deb
Size: 4512
MD5sum: cf75127e9495f58b6776fad401a8bbcb
SHA1: fdad83cc348575f5feccf80f143b51c1f55dcb0b
SHA256: cf8ceb4df9702105c6763fed6b2eebf3f6128777de2cac288011718a09c17949
SHA512: 1f7a0fa13188f709fa1030bac940be449a8f8a08c31df89c49a548c7f79a3c90518f3df934c7090aa5e416670714ea02df6f21a4f67d5f7d3cb26556577de734
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