esptool (espressif-esptool) Package name

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espressif-esptool

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Last updated

25 August 2026 - latest/stable
24 July 2026 - latest/candidate

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Serial utility for flashing, provisioning, and interacting with Espressif SoCs

A Python-based, open-source, platform-independent serial utility for flashing, provisioning, and interacting with Espressif SoCs (ESP32, ESP8266, etc.).

Features:

Flash firmware to ESP32, ESP8266, and other Espressif chips
Read, write, erase, and verify binary data stored in flash
Read chip features and MAC address information
Read and write one-time-programmable eFuses
Support for various firmware formats and bootloaders
Complete toolset including esptool, espefuse, and espsecure
Work with ROM bootloader and flasher stub

Usage: The following top level commands are exported as part of the snap.

espressif-esptool.esptool
espressif-esptool.espefuse
espressif-esptool.espsecure

These can be aliased to more friendly names using the following alias commands:

snap alias espressif-esptool.esptool esptool
snap alias espressif-esptool.espefuse espefuse
snap alias espressif-esptool.espsecure espsecure

You will need to manually connect raw-usb and serial access before you can work with your esp devices.

sudo snap connect espressif-esptool:raw-usb
sudo snap connect espressif-esptool:serial

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