RKDevelopTool-GUI

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RKDevelopTool-GUI, covered in this article, is a community-maintained third-party graphical tool. It is not official Rockchip or Radxa software.

RKDevelopTool-GUI is a cross-platform graphical front-end for rkdeveloptool built by the community. It can be used for firmware flashing, partition management, and device debugging.

The macOS and Linux packages of RKDevelopTool-GUI already bundle a precompiled rkdeveloptool, so they work right after installation without compiling from source.

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Installing RKDevelopTool-GUI

Download the package for your platform from the project's GitHub Releases page.

macOS

Download RKDevelopTool-GUI-arm64.dmg (Apple Silicon only).

Drag the app into Applications. If macOS reports the file is damaged the first time you open it, run:

xattr -cr /Applications/RKDevelopTool-GUI.app

Linux

• Debian / Ubuntu (amd64 / arm64): download and install rkdeveloptool-gui_*.deb
• Fedora / openSUSE (x86_64 / aarch64): download and install rkdeveloptool-gui-*.rpm
• No installation needed: download RKDevelopTool-GUI-*-x86_64.AppImage or *-aarch64.AppImage, mark it executable, and run it
• Arch Linux: install rkdeveloptool-gui from the AUR

All of the above packages statically link rkdeveloptool and its dependencies.

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RKDevelopTool-GUI does not provide prebuilt packages for Intel macOS or Windows. On those platforms it can be run from source (requires Python and PySide6, and a separately installed rkdeveloptool) — see the project README for steps. Windows users can also use RKDevTool directly.

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Using RKDevelopTool-GUI

Put the device into Maskrom mode and connect it over USB — RKDevelopTool-GUI detects connected devices automatically. From the interface you can:

• Write a Loader and system image
• View and back up the partition table
• Read chip model, Flash ID, and other device info
• Reboot the device

The bottom of the window shows the equivalent rkdeveloptool command line for the current action.

See the project README for further details.