nrf toolchain installation on Macbook Air M3

[PaulK_Future]

Hi There. 

I been 15 year experience in embedded system development but I'm very new to the Nordic nrf environment.

I'm eager to learn and develop some product and provide support for customers. 

For that to happen I need to have the tools install on my Macbook and I have been struggling with that for about 6 weeks. 

I have a Macbook Air with a M3 Apple Processor. I can install the nrf connect for vscode but cannot install the nrf toolchain nor the nrf SDK. 

I will appreciate you assistance in getting this sorted. The installation start and hang for hours. it's been over a day now that the progress bar has not moved.

assuming something is stopping it from completing the installation on my Macbook. I have removed vs code completely and tried a fresh install 5 times already.

looking forward to your assistance.

[Marte Myrvold]

Hi,

When installing the SDK and toolchain, are you selecting the pre-packaged SDKs and toolchains, or GitHub?

Are you using VPN or on a network with strict firewall?

Have you tried installing on command line with nRF Util instead? You can find the instructions for this in Installing the nRF Connect SDK.

Best regards,
Marte

[PaulK_Future]

Hi Marte. 

Thank you for your reply. 

• I am installing the pre-packaged SDK. I have not tried the GitHub option
• I have not tried the Util version. 
• I am not using SVN nor I have a firewall preventing any installation. 

I will try the two option and let you know if any other work. 

Regards. 

Paul. 

[PaulK_Future]

Hi Marte. 

Could you please send me the list of command I need to use when installing NRF connect via nrfutil. I installed V3.1.1 but it looks like I cannot activate it. and v3.1.0 is giving me a checksum error after downloading 

I could be doing something wrong

[Marte Myrvold]

Hi,

You can use the following command to start the toolchain environment:

nrfutil sdk-manager toolchain launch --ncs-version v3.1.1 --shell

After doing this, you should see that it is using the shell environment for that toolchain:

Then you can initialize west with this:

west init -m https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-nrf --mr nRFConnectSDK_revision nRFConnectSDK_revision

For example:

west init -m https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-nrf --mr v3.1.1 v3.1.1

This will create a directory named v3.1.1 and clone the manifest repository sdk-nrf into v3.1.1/nrf.

Once this is done, you can run the following command (inside v3.1.1 or v3.1.1/nrf) to install the rest of the SDK:

west update

Best regards,
Marte