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Adafruit Feather ESP32? Error Message under Ubuntu

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/home/lkatz/.arduino15/packages/esp32/tools/esptool_py/4.6/esptool.py", line 34, in <module>
    import esptool
  File "/home/lkatz/.arduino15/packages/esp32/tools/esptool_py/4.6/esptool/__init__.py", line 41, in <module>
    from esptool.cmds import (
  File "/home/lkatz/.arduino15/packages/esp32/tools/esptool_py/4.6/esptool/cmds.py", line 14, in <module>
    from .bin_image import ELFFile?, ImageSegment?, LoadFirmwareImage?
  File "/home/lkatz/.arduino15/packages/esp32/tools/esptool_py/4.6/esptool/bin_image.py", line 14, in <module>
    from .loader import ESPLoader?
  File "/home/lkatz/.arduino15/packages/esp32/tools/esptool_py/4.6/esptool/loader.py", line 30, in <module>
    import serial

ModuleNotFoundError?: No module named 'serial' exit status 1

Compilation error: exit status 1

Suggested fixes

1. sudo apt install python3-pip

python3 -m pip install pyserial

1. reinstalling the ESP32? to a lower version
2. I found that installing the deb package esptool fixed this.
3. I have installed Arduino IDE from "Ubuntu Software". Now IDE works good!
4. https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esptool/en/latest/esp32/troubleshooting.html
5. https://www.python.org/downloads/ python 3.7 or newer
6. $ pip install esptool