How To Install crystalhd-firmware on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crystalhd-firmware on CentOS 8.
What is crystalhd-firmware
Firmwares for the Broadcom Crystal HD (bcm970012 and bcm970015) video decoders.
We can use yum or dnf to install crystalhd-firmware on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install crystalhd-firmware.
Install crystalhd-firmware on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install crystalhd-firmware using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install crystalhd-firmware
Install crystalhd-firmware on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install crystalhd-firmware using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install crystalhd-firmware
How To Uninstall crystalhd-firmware on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the crystalhd-firmware package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove crystalhd-firmware
crystalhd-firmware Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/firmware/bcm70012fw.bin
/usr/lib/firmware/bcm70015fw.bin
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/20-crystalhd.rules
/usr/share/doc/crystalhd-firmware
/usr/share/doc/crystalhd-firmware/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crystalhd-firmware on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.