nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

jakoblover — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 09:22:36 GMT

Hi jnohlgard,

This issue has been fixed in 10.16.0, which is available for download now :)

www.nordicsemi.com/.../download

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

Glenn Andrews — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:03:24 GMT

That's great to know, thanks!

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

tknapstad — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 08:40:22 GMT

Installing directly with rpm works on Fedora 35, but not with the dnf package manager

$ sudo dnf install Downloads/nrf-command-line-tools-10.15.4-1.amd64.rpm
Last metadata expiration check: 0:32:45 ago on Wed 01 Jun 2022 10:02:01 AM CEST.
Error:
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - package nrf-command-line-tools-10.15.4-1.amd64 does not have a compatible architecture
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

$ sudo rpm -Uvh nrf-command-line-tools-10.15.4-1.amd64.rpm
Verifying...                          ################################# [100%]
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:nrf-command-line-tools-10.15.4-1 ################################# [100%]

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

Lukas Riha — Thu, 19 May 2022 12:44:50 GMT

Thank you very much.

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

Einar Thorsrud — Thu, 19 May 2022 06:33:02 GMT

The architecture will be updated to x86_64 in the next release (10.60.0).

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

Lukas Riha — Wed, 18 May 2022 22:09:04 GMT

Same here, Fedora Workstation 36, Gnome.

Have tried three different approches to install the package:

1. Via Gnome Software (which is the default action when double-clicking .rpm file) - no luck.

2. Using dnf - no luck.

3. using rpm directly - finally managed to install. Not yet sure it will work as expected (thanks to the different architecture - really depends on how the software was compiled, IMHO).

Would be perfect if the architecture was correct and the install worked using all the standard tools.

Having a repository with all the required tools would be super cool - than way users could add it to their systems and either be notified of updates or have automatic updates (depending on user's settings).

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

Glenn Andrews — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:38:46 GMT

Same problem here. Fedora 35 Workstation Edition.

I worked around it by extracting the files from the RPM and running the postinstall script manually, but it was a pain to do so.

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

Einar Thorsrud — Fri, 13 May 2022 10:23:25 GMT

I see, so this seems related to rpm-ostree. That is good to know. Regardless, we will look into changing the architecture in RPMs to x86_64 in the future.

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

jnohlgard — Fri, 13 May 2022 09:44:30 GMT

I am running Fedora Silverblue 35 . it is possible that rpm-ostree is more picky about this than the regular rpm command is. Machine is a x86_64 (Intel 10th gen laptop).

Install command:

rpm-ostree install nrf-...-1.rpm

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

Einar Thorsrud — Fri, 13 May 2022 09:11:36 GMT

Hi,

We did not see this when testing with Fedora35 (latest stable), 36, and 37/Rawhide (dev build). Which exact Fedora version are you using, and which machine?

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

Einar Thorsrud — Thu, 12 May 2022 11:50:03 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for letting us know. As you noted, amd64 and x86_64 is the exact same architecture, so it is only the RPM package that is different. I have informed the team responsible for the nRF Command Line Tools so that they can update the generated RPM packages to use x86_64 in the future.

RE: nRF Command Line Tools Linux RPM package has wrong arch

jnohlgard — Thu, 12 May 2022 09:25:53 GMT

Digging into the issue I found that it seems like amd64 used to be supported as an alternative alias for the architecture in RPM, but it is no longer that way on Fedora. Could be that it still works with amd64 on some other RPM distro.