Initial Sketch compile in Arduino fails since adafruit-nrfutil executable not in $PATH

[CAmerica]

Error compiling board Seeed XIAO nRF52840 Sense

Loaded Sketch Blink as per instructions

But cannot compile

[Citric]

What is the error message prompted and can you take a screenshot to show me?

[alexander.sheintsvit]

Same problem, see more details here

Build failure adafruit-nrfutil not found in PATH

Default scetch build/upload fails when it tries to create DFU zip file exec: “adafruit-nrfutil”: executable file not found in $PATH Error compiling for board Seeed XIAO nRF52840 Sense. Offending build line adafruit-nrfutil dfu genpkg --dev-type 0x0052 --sd-req 0x0123 --application /tmp/arduino_build_977951/sketch_jul24a.ino.hex /tmp/arduino_build_977951/sketch_jul24a.ino.zip adafruit-nrfutil is actually installed and is in Linux’s $PATH: alex@Ubuntu:~$ adafruit-nrfutil version adafruit-nr…