CLI update Library manger and Board Manger?

vinc14 · February 24, 2021, 9:35pm

hello
it is possible to do the Library manger and Board Manger update with command line ?
have a nice day
vinc

pert · February 25, 2021, 4:08am

Yes. If you're using the Arduino IDE, you can find the documentation for the --install-boards and --install-library flags here:

github.com

arduino/Arduino/blob/master/build/shared/manpage.adoc#description

// Generate a manpage with: a2x -f manpage manpage.adoc
// or HTML with: a2x -f xhtml manpage.adoc
//
// This file uses {empty}:: in some places, to allow putting multiple
// paragraphs inside a single label list item. This is a bit ugly and
// non-semantic, but it seems this is the best way to do this. Asciidoc
// also supports putting a plus sign on a line by itself to join two
// paragraphs into a single list item. However, the indentation on the
// second paragraph makes that formatted with a fixed-size font.
// Removing the indentation completely makes the asciidoc source very
// unreadable. Also, for the --board option, there is a a paragraph,
// followed by a list, followed by another paragraph. The + approach can
// only put the latter paragraph into the inner list, not the outer
// one...

ARDUINO(1)
==========
:doctype: manpage

NAME

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You can also use Arduino CLI to do this if you want a purely command line tool:
https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/

vinc14 · February 25, 2021, 8:18pm

@pert thanks for your feedback
your links shows only to install it new - but i just wish to do the update from what i have installed in the IDE.
Or i did missunderstood the text.

have a nice day
vinc

pert · February 25, 2021, 8:31pm

Yes, it's possible:

github.com

arduino/Arduino/blob/master/build/shared/manpage.adoc#description

// Generate a manpage with: a2x -f manpage manpage.adoc
// or HTML with: a2x -f xhtml manpage.adoc
//
// This file uses {empty}:: in some places, to allow putting multiple
// paragraphs inside a single label list item. This is a bit ugly and
// non-semantic, but it seems this is the best way to do this. Asciidoc
// also supports putting a plus sign on a line by itself to join two
// paragraphs into a single list item. However, the indentation on the
// second paragraph makes that formatted with a fixed-size font.
// Removing the indentation completely makes the asciidoc source very
// unreadable. Also, for the --board option, there is a a paragraph,
// followed by a list, followed by another paragraph. The + approach can
// only put the latter paragraph into the inner list, not the outer
// one...

ARDUINO(1)
==========
:doctype: manpage

NAME

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--install-boards package name:platform architecture[:version]
Fetches available board support (platform) list and install the specified one, along with its related tools. If version is omitted, the latest is installed. If a platform with the same version is already installed, nothing is installed and program exits with exit code 1. If a platform with a different version is already installed, it’s replaced.

--install-library library name[:version]
Fetches available libraries list and install the specified one. If version is omitted, the latest is installed. If a library with the same version is already installed, nothing is installed and program exits with exit code 1. If a library with a different version is already installed, it’s replaced. Multiple libraries can be specified, separated by a comma.

So if you wanted to update the "Arduino AVR Boards" platform of the Uno, Mega, etc., you can run this command:

arduino --install-boards arduino:avr

or on Windows:

arduino_debug --install-boards arduino:avr

It's the same with Arduino CLI:

arduino-cli core install arduino:avr

but Arduino CLI has an extra feature you might like:
https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/commands/arduino-cli_upgrade/

Upgrades installed cores and libraries to latest version.
arduino-cli upgrade [flags]

If you run that command, it upgrades everything you have installed to the latest version!

system · June 25, 2021, 8:31pm

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