How To Install fwupdate-libs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fwupdate-libs on CentOS 8.
What is fwupdate-libs
Library to allow for the simple manipulation of UEFI firmware updates.
We can use yum or dnf to install fwupdate-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fwupdate-libs.
Install fwupdate-libs 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 fwupdate-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fwupdate-libs
Install fwupdate-libs 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 fwupdate-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fwupdate-libs
How To Uninstall fwupdate-libs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fwupdate-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fwupdate-libs
fwupdate-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/b8669142835c1fbe45ce7b51f0995d7bc31f3e
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fwupdate-cleanup.service
/usr/lib64/libfwup.so.1
/usr/lib64/libfwup.so.1.11
/usr/libexec/fwupdate
/usr/libexec/fwupdate/cleanup
/usr/share/locale/en/libfwup.po
/var/lib/fwupdate
/var/lib/fwupdate/done
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fwupdate-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.