How To Install syslinux-extlinux on CentOS 8

syslinux-extlinux is The EXTLINUX bootloader, for booting the local system.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install syslinux-extlinux on CentOS 8.

What is syslinux-extlinux

The EXTLINUX bootloader, for booting the local system, as well as all the SYSLINUX/PXELINUX modules in /boot.

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

Install syslinux-extlinux 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 syslinux-extlinux using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install syslinux-extlinux

Install syslinux-extlinux 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 syslinux-extlinux using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install syslinux-extlinux

How To Uninstall syslinux-extlinux on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the syslinux-extlinux package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove syslinux-extlinux

syslinux-extlinux Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/extlinux.conf
/sbin/extlinux
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/35d9e74dab57999fb7e408c3957d856d59fae1

References

Summary

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