How To Install biosdevname.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install biosdevname.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. biosdevname.x86_64 is Udev helper for naming devices per BIOS names

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install biosdevname.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `biosdevname.x86_64`

biosdevname in its simplest form takes a kernel device name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it “should” be. This is necessary on systems where the BIOS name for a given device (e.g. the label on the chassis is “Gb1”) doesn’t map directly and obviously to the kernel name (e.g. eth0).

We can use yum to install biosdevname.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install biosdevname.x86_64.

Install biosdevname.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install biosdevname.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install biosdevname.x86_64

How To Uninstall biosdevname.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the biosdevname.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove biosdevname.x86_64

biosdevname.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/71-biosdevname.rules
/usr/sbin/biosdevname
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname-0.7.3
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname-0.7.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname-0.7.3/README
/usr/share/man/man1/biosdevname.1.gz

References

biosdevname.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install biosdevname.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.