nRF toolchain problem with nrfutil settings not found

[androidonis]

Hi, i have a problem re-running an old project. It worked once, but now there seems to be some incompatibility.

Need help with this:

nrfutil settings generate --family NRF52 --application bin/espruino_2v27.36_mdbt42q.app_hex --app-boot-validation VALIDATE_GENERATED_CRC --application-version 0x01 --bootloader-version 0x01 --bl-settings-version 2 obj/dfu_settings.hex
Error: nrfutil command settings not found. See nrfutil list for full list of installed commands, nrfutil search for installable commands, and nrfutil install for installation of new commands.

Caused by:
Subcommand nrfutil-settings not found

I am on ARCH Linux and nrfutil is installed:

aur/nrfutil 8.1.1-1 (+1 0.01) (Installiert)
unified command line utility for Nordic products

I am not an expert on this tools, only used them once to get things done.
Best Regards.

[gfwilliams]

Did you install nrfutil yourself or did you using the provision script?

I have:

$ nrfutil version
nrfutil version 6.1.7

So that might be the problem? Maybe they removed the option in a later version - Nordic have a history of randomly changing/renaming things for no reason

[androidonis]

I had to do this myself as I am on Mabox Linux an Arch-Linux / Manjaro type. I have to use pacman / yay and the Arch User Repository only offers 8.1.1-1 (recently updated). I think I had 6.1.2, but was forced to remove it in the last update. There was a conflict with some BLE driver. (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nrfutil)

What I just discovered is that the command just changed syntax: nrfutil settings -> nrfutil nrf5sdk-tools settings
( https://docs.nordicsemi.com/bundle/nrfutil/page/nrfutil-nrf5sdk-tools/nrfutil-nrf5sdk-tools_1.0.1.html#alternative-ways-of-obtaining-nrf-util-v6xx )

So maybe I can use the latest version and just change some script to use new syntax ?
I also look into methods to downgrade the version, but I expect problems with conflicts.

[gfwilliams]

So maybe I can use the latest version and just change some script to use new syntax ?

I think for now that's best. I think this is what you need: https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/blob/master/make/common/NRF5X.make#L539

But the provision script uses pipx which should work fine to get the latest nrfutil? https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/blob/master/scripts/provision.sh#L166-L192

So you could just do that manually (with pacman, not apt?)

[androidonis]

Great, both ways work. I first tested with changed script, but better was to just add pipx to the system. Thanks