ESP8266 Community Forum

- Tue Jul 28, 2015 3:58 pm #24485 Dear Sirs,
I am trying to install esp8266 platform support at board manager of Arduino 1.6.5 at Ubuntu 14.04 32Bit.
I am following the instruction enlisted at https://github.com/esp8266/arduino
After copying http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/packa ... index.json at Preferences window ,
then I go to board manager and I am trying to install esp8266 platform as suggested.
Here is the problem, it can not found the file esptool-0.4.5-linux32.tar.gz
from https://github.com/igrr/esptool-ck/rele ... x32.tar.gz

I checked also manually and it is sure that this file does not exist in that place. So the installation never completed and
I have not esp8266 platform available as expected.

Please give me a possible solution.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Mike Kranidis

- Tue Jul 28, 2015 11:36 pm #24500 +1

The 0.4.5 version install is still broken for my 32bit linux system as well...

Is it possible to make 0.4.4 version available as a fallback until esptool-0.4.5-linux32.tar.gz is available?

- Wed Jul 29, 2015 2:34 am #24503

then I go to board manager and I am trying to install esp8266 platform as suggested.
Here is the problem, it can not found the file esptool-0.4.5-linux32.tar.gz
from https://github.com/igrr/esptool-ck/rele ... x32.tar.gz

Once you put the json reference in preferences you are done . You do not have any thing else to do . esptool is actually already installed by the json reference and you can find it in preferences bottom left link .Follow through to tools.

So select your board and your port ,speeds and memory and compileand upload

Get you modules here:

https://www.banggood.com/custlink/KvGGhGF4wG

- Wed Jul 29, 2015 9:33 am #24547

then I go to board manager and I am trying to install esp8266 platform as suggested.
Here is the problem, it can not found the file esptool-0.4.5-linux32.tar.gz
from https://github.com/igrr/esptool-ck/rele ... x32.tar.gz

Once you put the json reference in preferences you are done . You do not have any thing else to do . esptool is actually already installed by the json reference and you can find it in preferences bottom left link .Follow through to tools.

So select your board and your port ,speeds and memory and compileand upload

No it is not like you describe. After the copy-paste to preference, you should go to board manager AND THEN to select the esp8266 entry and select install. That very necessary step CAN NOT BE FINISHED due to the missing of esptool-0.4.5-linux32.tar.gz.

Is it more clear now?