Update: I've achieved the same result with a v1.0 and a v1.1. I've tried v4.7.dev1, v4.7 and v4.8.dev1 esptool versions. All the same results, i.e. flasher stub works. In my experiments I've used Espressif boards all through UART.

We will investigate the issue with --no-stub and USB.

Please try to clean up your system and remove everything ESP-IDF-related (including all environment variables you've set).
Run the installer again and select the option of installing the built-in Python 3.11. Save the installation log and share it if you still encounter the issue.

I will try to find a v0.4 revision chip and check the issue there.

I've tried this with an older revision of the chip and it can read the whole flash: `--> esptool.py --chip esp32c3 read_flash 0 ALL /tmp/file.bin esptool.py v4.7.0 Found 2 serial ports Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0 Connecting.... Chip is ESP32-C3 (QFN32) (revision v0.3) Features: WiFi, BLE Crystal is 40M...

Perhaps you've run the build with root access before? It might help to try to remove those particular files it cannot access with "sudo rm".

If you are in an ESP-IDF environment then it should be available (in terminal where you sourced export.sh). Please run IDF Monitor from the same environment you are building your projects. You can test this and should be able to run "xtensa-esp32s3-elf-addr2line --version" there.

If the installed directories are not empty then please try to run any of those executables manually with the "--version" argument. The output probably will reveal some error message.

In ESP-IDF v5.1.1 "espefuse.py" is aliased to run
Are you able to run that instead?

Or the following?

How do you try to run it? Are you in an ESP-IDF terminal environment? What is the working directory and the full command you are running?

"espefuse.pyc" - The pyc part doesn't seem right.

It looks like one of the antivirus programs are blocking the installation. I don't know which one because you seem to have three different ones in addition to Windows defender. You can try to disable them one-by-one to see if that helps. After you've identified the one which is blocking then you can...