How To Install dbxtool.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dbxtool.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dbxtool.x86_64 is Secure Boot DBX updater

Introduction

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

What is `dbxtool.x86_64`

This package contains DBX updates for UEFI Secure Boot.

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

Install dbxtool.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 dbxtool.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dbxtool.x86_64

How To Uninstall dbxtool.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove dbxtool.x86_64

dbxtool.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/dbxtool
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbxtool.service
/usr/share/dbxtool
/usr/share/dbxtool/DBXUpdate-2016-08-09-13-16-00.bin
/usr/share/licenses/dbxtool-7
/usr/share/licenses/dbxtool-7/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/dbxtool.1.gz

References

dbxtool.x86_64 website

Summary

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