Warning
PlatformIO DOES NOT require administrative/sudo permissions. Please install using the default user account WITHOUT EXTRA PERMISSIONS.
Install PlatformIO Core into the virtual Python environment using an installer script.
A default location of Python virtual environment is “core_dir/penv”. If you have any issues with PlatformIO Core, just remove this folder and re-run installer script.
To install or upgrade PlatformIO Core paste that at a Terminal prompt:
python3 -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platformio/platformio/master/scripts/get-platformio.py)"
or using curl
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platformio/platformio-core-installer/master/get-platformio.py -o get-platformio.py
python3 get-platformio.py
or using wget
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platformio/platformio-core-installer/master/get-platformio.py -O get-platformio.py
python3 get-platformio.py
To install or upgrade PlatformIO Core, download (save as…) get-platformio.py script. Then run the following:
# change directory to the folder where is located downloaded "get-platformio.py"
cd /path-to-dir/where/get-platformio.py/is-located
# run it
python get-platformio.py
On Windows OS it may look like this:
# change directory to the folder where is located downloaded "get-platformio.py"
cd C:/path-to-dir/where/get-platformio.py/is-located
# run it
python.exe get-platformio.py
Note
If you need to have access to pio or pio.exe commands from
other applications or terminals in your OS, please Install Shell Commands.