How To Install grub2-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub2-common.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. grub2-common.noarch is grub2 common layout

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub2-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `grub2-common.noarch`

This package provides some directories which are required by various grub2 subpackages.

We can use yum to install grub2-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grub2-common.noarch.

Install grub2-common.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 grub2-common.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install grub2-common.noarch

How To Uninstall grub2-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the grub2-common.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove grub2-common.noarch

grub2-common.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/boot/grub2
/boot/grub2/fonts
/boot/grub2/fonts/unicode.pf2
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
/boot/grub2/grubenv
/etc/grub.d
/etc/grub2-efi.cfg
/etc/grub2.cfg
/usr/lib/grub
/usr/lib/kernel/install.d/20-grub.install
/usr/lib/kernel/install.d/99-grub-mkconfig.install
/usr/share/doc/grub2-common-2.06
/usr/share/doc/grub2-common-2.06/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/grub2-common-2.06/font_char_metrics.png
/usr/share/doc/grub2-common-2.06/grub-dev.html
/usr/share/doc/grub2-common-2.06/grub.html
/usr/share/grub
/usr/share/licenses/grub2-common-2.06
/usr/share/licenses/grub2-common-2.06/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/de@hebrew/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@arabic/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@cyrillic/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@greek/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@hebrew/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@piglatin/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/lg/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo

References

grub2-common.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub2-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.