nrfutil not working on MacOS

RE: nrfutil not working on MacOS

rerickson — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:56:31 GMT

That looks like the issue:

ryan@superfruit ~ % file /usr/local/bin/nrfutil
/usr/local/bin/nrfutil: a /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7 script text executable, ASCII text
ryan@superfruit ~ % cat /usr/local/bin/nrfutil
#!/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import sys
from nordicsemi.__main__ import cli
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(cli())

RE: nrfutil not working on MacOS

Susheel Nuguru — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:25:44 GMT

Is it possible that you have an old version of nrfutil on your PATH still? Can you run file /usr/local/bin/nrfutil to see if this is a python script? Older versions of nrfutil were using python. Check if your newest version is installed somewhere else.

RE: nrfutil not working on MacOS

Susheel Nuguru — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 04:43:54 GMT

It should not be a hard dependency on a particular version like that. If it is, then it has to be a mistake. I have asked the Tools teams to comment on the error message. Will update you soon on their findings.

RE: nrfutil not working on MacOS

rerickson — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:15:07 GMT

No where on your nrfutill page does it detail or describe the python requirements.

I use pyenv to manage python on my mac and python is working without issues.

```

ryan@superfruit ~ % python --version
Python 3.11.4
ryan@superfruit ~ % which python
/Users/ryan/.pyenv/shims/python

```

Does nrfutil require python 3.7? If so, that is a major issue. Python 3.7 is EOL.

nrfutil should work regardless of other python environments on the system.

RE: nrfutil not working on MacOS

Susheel Nuguru — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:48:06 GMT

This seems to be an issue with your python installation or the path.
Did you check where your Python is installed and if it is working properly?