How To Install efivar-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar-libs on Rocky Linux 8. efivar-libs is Library to manage UEFI variables

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is efivar-libs

Library to allow for the simple manipulation of UEFI variables.

We can use yum or dnf to install efivar-libs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install efivar-libs.

Install efivar-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install efivar-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install efivar-libs

Install efivar-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install efivar-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install efivar-libs

How To Uninstall efivar-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the efivar-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove efivar-libs

efivar-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/5cfc6408e90d7199f2354554277a58f1619c82
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/d570852e7f9e7444932df2d405ffb31f5e6a99
/usr/lib/libefiboot.so.1
/usr/lib/libefiboot.so.1.37
/usr/lib/libefivar.so.1
/usr/lib/libefivar.so.1.37
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/ef1837e8932aef5b3a4735bdd0e9a19d533174
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/661548528cab3a0fa6c6a6c17d2bc399a1e121
/usr/lib64/libefiboot.so.1
/usr/lib64/libefiboot.so.1.37
/usr/lib64/libefivar.so.1
/usr/lib64/libefivar.so.1.37

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar-libs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.