ARDUINO-CLI-PROFILE-LIB-ADD(1)

📦 version 1.5.1, in ubuntu stonking

💖 arduino-cli-profile-lib-add(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Arduino Command Line Manual — yes that's the whole manual name, it's giving very official 🎀. We're doing arduino-cli profile lib add today and it's genuinely so good.

✨ NAME ✨

arduino-cli-profile-lib-add — adds a library to a sketch profile. that's it. that's the job. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

arduino-cli profile lib add LIBRARY[@VERSION_NUMBER]... [flags]

see how LIBRARY[@VERSION_NUMBER]... has the little ... at the end? that means you can stack multiple ones. iconic behavior honestly.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Adds a library to a sketch profile. 🫶

that's the whole thing! you point it at a library (or a whole bunch of libraries, no cap) and it goes into the profile. main character energy for your dependencies.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h, --help[=false] — help for add. your emergency bestie when you forget what you're doing. 🙈
  • --no-deps[=false] — do not add dependencies. just the one library, nothing that comes along with it. 🚫
  • --no-overwrite[=false] — do not overwrite already added libraries. if it's already in there, leave it alone. 💀
  • -m, --profile="" — sketch profile to use. (default is empty string, so like… tell it which one, bestie) 🌈
  • --sketch-path="" — location of the sketch. where the sketch actually lives on your filesystem. 📁

🧚 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🧚

these ones come from the parent command, so they're not technically this command's, but they work here too and you deserve to know about all of them:

  • --additional-urls=[] — comma-separated list of additional URLs for the Boards Manager. 🎀
  • --config-dir="" — sets the default data directory. heads up: Arduino CLI will look for the configuration file in this directory. ⭐
  • --config-file="" — the custom config file. if you don't specify one, the default will be used. 💜
  • --json[=false] — print the output in JSON format. for the parser girlies. 🤖
  • --log[=false] — print the logs on the standard output. 👀
  • --log-file="" — path to the file where logs will be written. 📝
  • --log-format="text" — the output format for the logs. can be: text, json. ✨
  • --log-level="info" — messages with this level and above will be logged. valid levels are: trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic. 🔥
  • --no-color[=false] — disable colored output. (sad, but sometimes you gotta 😭)

💫 EXAMPLE 💫

copy these exactly, they're verbatim:

debian/build/bin/arduino-cli profile lib add AudioZero -m my_profile
debian/build/bin/arduino-cli profile lib add Arduino_JSON@0.2.0 --profile my_profile

see the second one? Arduino_JSON@0.2.0 — that @ is how you pin a VERSION_NUMBER. ate. 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

📜 HISTORY 📜

15-Aug-2026 — auto generated by spf13/cobra. not a human, just a generator being its little generator self. 🦋

ngl bestie, this whole page was auto generated by spf13/cobra and it's dated Aug 2026, and the manual it belongs to is ARDUINO COMMAND LINE MANUAL(1). that's the whole vibe check, periodt. 💖✨🎀
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