How To Install grubby.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install grubby.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. grubby.x86_64 is Command line tool for updating bootloader configs

Introduction

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

What is `grubby.x86_64`

grubby is a command line tool for updating and displaying information about the configuration files for the grub, lilo, elilo (ia64), yaboot (powerpc) and zipl (s390) boot loaders. It is primarily designed to be used from scripts which install new kernels and need to find information about the current boot environment.

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

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

sudo yum -y install grubby.x86_64

How To Uninstall grubby.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove grubby.x86_64

grubby.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sysconfig/kernel
/usr/libexec/grubby/prune_debug
/usr/sbin/grubby
/usr/sbin/installkernel
/usr/sbin/new-kernel-pkg
/usr/share/doc/grubby-8.28
/usr/share/doc/grubby-8.28/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/grubby.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/installkernel.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/new-kernel-pkg.8.gz

References

grubby.x86_64 website

Summary

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