How To Install efibootmgr.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install efibootmgr.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. efibootmgr.x86_64 is EFI Boot Manager

Introduction

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

What is `efibootmgr.x86_64`

efibootmgr displays and allows the user to edit the Intel Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager variables. Additional information about EFI can be found at http http

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

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

sudo yum -y install efibootmgr.x86_64

How To Uninstall efibootmgr.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove efibootmgr.x86_64

efibootmgr.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/efibootmgr
/usr/share/doc/efibootmgr-15
/usr/share/doc/efibootmgr-15/README
/usr/share/licenses/efibootmgr-15
/usr/share/licenses/efibootmgr-15/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/efibootmgr.8.gz

References

efibootmgr.x86_64 website

Summary

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