How To Install edk2-ovmf.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install edk2-ovmf.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. edk2-ovmf.noarch is Open Virtual Machine Firmware

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install edk2-ovmf.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `edk2-ovmf.noarch`

EFI Development Kit II Open Virtual Machine Firmware (x64)

We can use yum to install edk2-ovmf.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install edk2-ovmf.noarch.

Install edk2-ovmf.noarch 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 edk2-ovmf.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install edk2-ovmf.noarch

How To Uninstall edk2-ovmf.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the edk2-ovmf.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove edk2-ovmf.noarch

edk2-ovmf.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/OVMF
/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd
/usr/share/doc/edk2-ovmf-20200801stable
/usr/share/doc/edk2-ovmf-20200801stable/README
/usr/share/doc/edk2-ovmf-20200801stable/ovmf-whitepaper-c770f8c.txt
/usr/share/edk2
/usr/share/edk2/ovmf
/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd
/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_VARS.fd
/usr/share/licenses/edk2-ovmf-20200801stable
/usr/share/licenses/edk2-ovmf-20200801stable/LICENSE.openssl
/usr/share/licenses/edk2-ovmf-20200801stable/License.txt
/usr/share/qemu/firmware

References

edk2-ovmf.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install edk2-ovmf.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.