How To Install fwupdate on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fwupdate on Rocky Linux 8. fwupdate is Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fwupdate on Rocky Linux 8.

What is fwupdate

fwupdate provides a simple command line interface to the UEFI firmware updates.

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

Install fwupdate 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 fwupdate using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fwupdate

Install fwupdate 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 fwupdate using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fwupdate

How To Uninstall fwupdate on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fwupdate package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fwupdate

fwupdate Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/fwupdate
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/c8206eac0fac9b2b03c3b13b58ecd5fe9d34c4
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/fwupdate
/usr/share/licenses/fwupdate
/usr/share/licenses/fwupdate/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/en/fwupdate.po
/usr/share/man/man1/fwupdate.1.gz

References

Summary

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