How To Install flashrom on CentOS 8

flashrom is Simple program for reading/writing flash chips content

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flashrom on CentOS 8.

What is flashrom

flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various other programmer devices.

We can use yum or dnf to install flashrom on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flashrom.

Install flashrom 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 flashrom using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flashrom

Install flashrom 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 flashrom using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flashrom

How To Uninstall flashrom on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the flashrom package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove flashrom

flashrom Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/007921ca6c90294c2c31cf7c3ce6e67f38880d
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/ac54e297e0f4f4352d25505160d6fbf8b81c9d
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60_flashrom.rules
/usr/lib64/libflashrom.so.1
/usr/lib64/libflashrom.so.1.0.0
/usr/sbin/flashrom
/usr/share/doc/flashrom
/usr/share/doc/flashrom/README
/usr/share/licenses/flashrom
/usr/share/licenses/flashrom/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/flashrom.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flashrom on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.