How To Install grubby on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grubby on CentOS 8.
What is grubby
This package provides a grubby compatibility script that manages BootLoaderSpec files and is meant to only be used for legacy compatibility users with existing grubby users.
We can use yum or dnf to install grubby on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grubby.
Install grubby 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 grubby using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install grubby
Install grubby 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 grubby using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install grubby
How To Uninstall grubby on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the grubby package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove grubby
grubby Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/1e62b87b443000f58668d4019e5cbb279ee33c
/usr/libexec/grubby
/usr/libexec/grubby/grubby-bls
/usr/libexec/grubby/rpm-sort
/usr/libexec/installkernel
/usr/libexec/installkernel/installkernel-bls
/usr/sbin/grubby
/usr/sbin/installkernel
/usr/share/licenses/grubby
/usr/share/licenses/grubby/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/grubby.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/installkernel.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grubby on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.