RE: Installing nRF5x command-line tools on Debian Linux

Simen August Tinderholt — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:28:46 GMT

We are looking into making installers for OS X and debian-derivate unix systems.

There are several canonical ways to install command line tools on linux systems, but they way we've been doing it is the following:

Untar the tarball in /opt/nrfjprog

sudo tar xvf nRF5x... .tar --directory /opt/

make a symlink from /usr/local/bin/nrfjprog to /opt/nrfjprog/nrfjprog with

sudo ln -s /opt/nrfjprog/nrfjprog /usr/local/bin/nrfjprog

nRFJProg will find the .so libraries if they are located in the same folder as nRFJProg or any place they can be found by dlopen. That would be anywhere in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, /lib or /usr/lib on most distros.