Software / APT Repository

APT Repository¶

The software available in the download section is also available for installation as Debian packages in our APT repository.

Currently, these distributions and architectures are supported:

Debian: amd64, i386, armhf, arm64
Ubuntu: amd64, i386, armhf, arm64
Raspberry Pi OS (previously Raspbian): armhf, arm64

Setup¶

Step 1: Import public GPG key:

wget https://download.tinkerforge.com/apt/$(. /etc/os-release; echo $ID)/tinkerforge.asc -q -O - | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/tinkerforge.asc > /dev/null

Step 2: Add APT repository:

echo "deb https://download.tinkerforge.com/apt/$(. /etc/os-release; echo $ID $VERSION_CODENAME) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tinkerforge.list

Step 3: Update APT package list:

sudo apt update

Packages¶

Currently, these packages are available:

Tools
- Brick Daemon: brickd
- Brick Viewer: brickv
- Brick Flash: brick-flash
API Bindings
- Go: golang-tinkerforge-dev
- Java: libtinkerforge-java and libtinkerforge-java-doc
- JavaScript (Node.js): node-tinkerforge
- JSON: tinkerforge-json
- MQTT: tinkerforge-mqtt
- Octave: octave-tinkerforge
- Perl: libtinkerforge-perl
- PHP: php-tinkerforge
- Python: python3-tinkerforge (Python 3) and python-tinkerforge (Python 2, last available version is 2.1.30, no new version will be released anymore, due to Python 2 being end-of-life)
- Ruby: ruby-tinkerforge
- Shell: tinkerforge-shell