How to Install Fritzing on Raspberry Pi OS

Fritzing is an open-source tool used by engineers to automate the process of electric circuit designing. Through this tool, you will get an opportunity to design your circuit that anyone can easily visualize. It creates a virtual image of your electric circuit as you created it in real life, allowing you to keep a copy of this circuit in different formats such as a pdf or image for future guidance.

In this tutorial, we will show you how you can install Fritzing on your Raspberry Pi OS, so let’s begin the process.

How to Install Fritzing on Raspberry Pi OS

Fritzing is a lightweight application; thus, it can run on your Raspberry Pi smoothly. To install this application on the Raspberry Pi system, you should perform the below-mentioned steps:

Step 1: Updating the Raspberry Pi Repository List

It’s a good habit to update your Raspberry Pi repository list first before moving towards the main installation process. For this reason, you should first apply the following command to check all packages are up to date:

Step 2: Upgrade Raspberry Pi Packages

If the above command returns the packages’ update output, you should apply the following command to upgrade the packages on your Raspberry Pi system:

The -y tag in the above command confirms upgrading the packages on Raspberry Pi system.

Step 3: Install Fritzing on Raspberry Pi

Once the packages are upgraded on Raspberry Pi, you are good to install Fritzing on your system through the following command:

Step 4: Run Fritzing on Raspberry Pi

There are two methods to run Fritzing on your Raspberry Pi desktop. The first method is through terminal command, which is given below:

The other method is to run Fritzing from the Raspberry Pi main menu in the “Programming” section as shown in the image below:

Both methods will launch the Fritzing application on your Raspberry Pi system, and you can begin creating circuit layouts on it.

Remove Fritzing from Raspberry Pi

You can remove Fritzing from your Raspberry Pi system by applying the following command with -y flag to confirm removing it from your system.

Conclusion

Fritzing is a handy tool for engineers that helps them develop a virtual layout of their circuit designs. Its installation is simple because the Raspberry Pi system includes its repository by default, allowing you to install this on your system through the apt command. Once the application is installed, you can run it either from the command-line terminal using the “fritzing” command or from the main Raspberry Pi menu from the “Programming” section.