How To Install tegrarcm on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tegrarcm on CentOS 8.
What is tegrarcm
This program is used to send code to a Tegra device in recovery mode. It does not supported locked devices with an encrypted boot key, only open devices such as the ventana, cardhu, or dalmore reference boards. It is not capable of flashing firmware to a device, but can be used to download firmware that is then capable of flashing. For example in ChromeOS tegrarcm is used to download a special build of u-boot to the target Tegra device with a payload that it then flashes to the boot device.
We can use yum or dnf to install tegrarcm on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tegrarcm.
Install tegrarcm 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 tegrarcm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tegrarcm
Install tegrarcm 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 tegrarcm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tegrarcm
How To Uninstall tegrarcm on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tegrarcm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tegrarcm
tegrarcm Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/tegrarcm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/924622ec8ff3fc51b239b10de89f3a6551c536
/usr/share/doc/tegrarcm
/usr/share/doc/tegrarcm/README
/usr/share/licenses/tegrarcm
/usr/share/licenses/tegrarcm/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/tegrarcm.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tegrarcm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
