How To Install mokutil on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mokutil on CentOS 8.
What is mokutil
mokutil provides a tool to manage keys for Secure Boot through the MoK (“Machine’s Own Keys”) mechanism.
We can use yum or dnf to install mokutil on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mokutil.
Install mokutil 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 mokutil using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mokutil
Install mokutil 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 mokutil using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mokutil
How To Uninstall mokutil on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the mokutil package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mokutil
mokutil Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/mokutil
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/1861e08eea675ea45948af1f76532a35faa800
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/mokutil
/usr/share/doc/mokutil
/usr/share/doc/mokutil/README
/usr/share/licenses/mokutil
/usr/share/licenses/mokutil/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/mokutil.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mokutil on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.