Nrfutil offline install not works

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Amanda Hsieh — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:43:59 GMT

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RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Sam.Art — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:19:29 GMT

Many thanks, for license clarification ... but in pratically update the fw in simple and massive mode is impossible: nrfutil is not redistribuible and there aren't a workaround in c or c++ or other languages.

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Amanda Hsieh — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:58:22 GMT

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply. You can view the license by the command: nrfutil device --license

$ nrfutil device --license
Displaying contents of /home/user/.nrfutil/share/nrfutil-device/LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2022 Nordic Semiconductor ASA
All rights reserved.

SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Nordic-1-Clause

This software may only be used in binary form, and it must not be redistributed,
reverse engineered, decompiled, modified and/or disassembled.
Changing configuration files for the software is permitted.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY NORDIC SEMICONDUCTOR ASA "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL NORDIC SEMICONDUCTOR ASA OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT
OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

This software includes components from other Nordic Semiconductor projects whose licenses differ from that of nrfutil itself; their individual licenses are included below.

(snip)

$ nrfutil --version
nrfutil 7.13.0 (8289424 2024-07-01)
commit-hash: 82894242d19ff24a1541712312b3ea3af0ca8f85
commit-date: 2024-07-01
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
build-timestamp: 2024-07-01T07:32:31.582129656Z
classification: nrf-external

Also here https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-nrfutil/blob/master/LICENSE

The answer based on the licensing terms is that it is not allowed to redistribute it. You could ask your user to download as this example instead of redistributing.

-Amanda H.

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

xhaishan — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:50:12 GMT

👍🏻👍👍🏻👍👍🏻👍I solved my problem,too.

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Sam.Art — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:31:11 GMT

last thing, where can I find the Nrfutil license? Are there any limitations for its redistribution within third-party software?

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Amanda Hsieh — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:31:52 GMT

Unfortunately, there are no such resources and currently no plans to provide that.

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Sam.Art — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:14:08 GMT

I think I have solved my problem, in practice I copy the .nrfutil folder into the Windows user folder (taken from a PC where the tools I need are already installed and functioning) and from the tests I have done this avoids the need to upgrade and installations with active internet connection.

But is there an implementation, C or C++ or other languages, of nrfutil to include in your own executable?

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Sam.Art — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:22:23 GMT

Hello

I finally understood the mystery, is the twice upgrade ... now have the lastest version and all works, but I'm afraid I can't solve my problem, from what I understand so far I should do the 'nrfutil self-upgrade' command twice which requires internet connection on a machine that doesn't have it... I saw that it depends from the '.nrfuit' folder in the user directory, I have to do some tests then I'll let you know

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Amanda Hsieh — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:48:54 GMT

Hi,

Your nrfutil version is quite out of date. Please try running nrfutil self-upgrade and then running it again (for various reasons it is required to do it twice at this particular transtion point but it should be needed to do it twice in fufure.)

If it doesn't recognised self-upgrade as a subcommand then please re-download nrfutil from the Nordic website https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Development-tools/nRF-Util

Once you've done either of those then please try the prepare-offline command again.

-Amanda H.

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Sam.Art — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:46:22 GMT

HI
I tried with at least 4 USB sticks, always the same.
I re-downloaded “nrfutil.exe” (again), put it in the USB stick where I unzipped your compressed file and attempted to install it on a physical Win10 machine, even with internet access this is the result:

Then again on this machine I recreated my 'offline' package and tried to install it from a USB stick, this is what I got:

I'll try to update the version on my PC and redo the package, but at this point I have little hope, I'll let you know then, but I'm afraid we're missing something...

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Amanda Hsieh — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:41:34 GMT

Hi,

[quote user="Sam.Art"]I did it all over again to be safe, I inserted a USB stick (E:), downloaded “nrfutil.exe” ( link ) I went to the download folder and typed the command “nrfutil prepare-offline E:/nrfutil-offline”, this is the result[/quote]

Could you try another USB stick?

[quote user="Sam.Art"]nrfutil 7.7.1 (25b8911 2024-02-07)[/quote]

Your version is a bit old. You can upgrade the nrfutil by this command: nrfutil self-upgrade

Then upgrade the installed commands: nrfutil upgrade

[quote user="Sam.Art"]

I did another test, if I bring the 'nrfutil-offline' subfolder to the USB stick and try to install on the machine without connection (Windows 10) with 'nrfutil install device --from-offline E:/nrfutil-offline', I get:

Error: Failed to bootstrap core functionality before executing command.

[/quote]

When do you download the package? Could you try this zip file devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../nrfutil_2D00_offline.7z? Unzip it to your USB stick.

-Amanda H.

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Sam.Art — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:28:20 GMT

Hi Amanda

I did it all over again to be safe, I inserted a USB stick (E:), downloaded “nrfutil.exe” ( link ) I went to the download folder and typed the command “nrfutil prepare-offline E:/nrfutil-offline”, this is the result

Error: Failed to export registry as offline source

Caused by:

0: Failed to open or initialize offline package index

1: config value 'safe.directory' was not found; class=Config (7); code=NotFound (-3)

It actually creates the “nrfutil-offline” folder but the sub-directories are empty
The nice thing is that if from the same position I type “nrfutil prepare-offline nrfutil-offline”, this is the result

nrfutil-91 is already the newest version (0.4.1)

nrfutil-ble-sniffer is already the newest version (0.12.0)

nrfutil-completion is already the newest version (1.4.0)

nrfutil-device is already the newest version (2.3.6)

nrfutil-npm is already the newest version (0.3.0)

nrfutil-nrf5sdk-tools is already the newest version (1.0.1)

nrfutil-toolchain-manager is already the newest version (0.14.4)

nrfutil-trace is already the newest version (2.1.0)

[00:00:00] ###### 100% [Install packages] Install packages

So far I have used my PC with window 11 in which I develop and use “nrfutil” without problems, typing (always from the previous ownload folder) “nrfutil –V”. I have:

nrfutil 7.7.1 (25b8911 2024-02-07)

commit-hash: 25b8911c166eda54ebbf1a4fd8f810b1dbf3e6b1

commit-date: 2024-02-07

host: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

build-timestamp: 2024-02-07T09:57:15.603608Z

classification: nrf-external

if I write “nrfutil list” I get:

Command Version Description

91 0.4.1 nRF91 device operations

ble-sniffer 0.12.0 Bluetooth LE sniffer for Nordic Semiconductor devices

completion 1.4.0

device 2.3.6 Work with Nordic Semiconductor devices

npm 0.3.0 Process CSV files produced by the PMIC battery profiling boards to produce a model usable for producing battery fuel gauge models

nrf5sdk-tools 1.0.1 nRF5 SDK tools that were available in nRF Util 6

dfu

keys

pkg

settings

zigbee

toolchain-manager 0.14.4 Manage and use toolchains for nRF Connect SDK

trace 2.1.0 Stream processing utility for transcoding of trace data types

Found 8 installed command(s)

Error: Failed to bootstrap core functionality before executing command.

HTTP request to default bootstrap resource

files.nordicsemi.com/.../bootstrap.json

failed.

Please check that your internet connection is functioning. If you use a proxy, please try the --detect-proxy flag or

manually set the appropriate HTTP_PROXY-style environment variable(s).

To use a custom bootstrap config, set NRFUTIL_BOOTSTRAP_CONFIG_URL. To bootstrap directly from a nrfutil-core package

tarball, set NRFUTIL_BOOTSTRAP_TARBALL_PATH.

Caused by:

0: error sending request for url (files.nordicsemi.com/.../bootstrap.json)

1: client error (Connect)

2: dns error: Host sconosciuto. (os error 11001)

3: Host sconosciuto. (os error 11001)

Here is the 'nrfutil-offline' : nrfutil-offline

I encountered this problem on 2 physical machines and 1 virtual, always Windows 10... honestly I don't understand much, in any case thanks for the help you are giving me.

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Amanda Hsieh — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:25:09 GMT

Hi,

Do you get the same error log on other machines that do not have internet? If so, Could you try with a USB drive as the instructions?

If so, please upgrade the nrfutil by this command:

nrfutil self-upgrade --from-offline E:/nrfutil-offline

Install again:

nrfutil install device --from-offline E:/nrfutil-offline

Upgrade the installed commands:

nrfutil upgrade --from-offline E:/nrfutil-offline

If you still have issues, please provide the output by the above commands and

nrfutil -V

nrfutil list

-Amanda H.

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Sam.Art — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:02:42 GMT

thanks for reply, but i not resolveed my problem ... I absolutely need to install ""nrfutil device" on machines that do not have an internet connection

RE: Nrfutil offline install not works

Amanda Hsieh — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:51:35 GMT

Hi,

I cannot reproduce the issue. Maybe the download package is not downloaded completely or for other reasons, but good to know you fixed the issue by installing via the Internet.

Regards,
Amanda H.