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avrdude


Information about the package, avrdude, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The avrdude package is designed for, Software for programming Atmel AVR Microcontroller.


Package Name:

avrdude

Summary:

Software for programming Atmel AVR Microcontroller

Description:

AVRDUDE is a program for programming Atmel's AVR CPU's. It can program the Flash and EEPROM, and where supported by the serial programming protocol, it can program fuse and lock bits. AVRDUDE also supplies a direct instruction mode allowing one to issue any programming instruction to the AVR chip regardless of whether AVRDUDE implements that specific feature of a particular chip.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

5.10

Release:

1.el6

Size:

567 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for avrdude


Control the avrdude package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install avrdude

This command will install avrdude on the server.

yum remove avrdude

This command will un-install avrdude on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove avrdude, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove avrdude

This command will un-install avrdude on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove avrdude when using the -y flag.

yum update avrdude

This command will update avrdude to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove avrdude, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update avrdude

This command will update avrdude to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove avrdude when using the -y flag.

yum info avrdude

This command will show you core information about the avrdude package.

yum deplist avrdude

This command will show you the dependencies for avrdude. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update avrdude

This command will check if there is an update waiting on avrdude. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.