How To Install sgabios-bin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sgabios-bin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.
What is sgabios-bin.noarch
SGABIOS is designed to be inserted into a BIOS as an option rom to provide over a serial port the display and input capabilities normally handled by a VGA adapter and a keyboard, and additionally provide hooks for logging displayed characters for later collection after an operating system boots.
We can use yum to install sgabios-bin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sgabios-bin.noarch.
Install sgabios-bin.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 sgabios-bin.noarch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sgabios-bin.noarch
How To Uninstall sgabios-bin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the sgabios-bin.noarch package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove sgabios-bin.noarch
sgabios-bin.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/share/sgabios
/usr/share/sgabios/sgabios.bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sgabios-bin.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.