How To Install 0xFFFF on Fedora 34

0xFFFF is The Open Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install 0xFFFF on Fedora 34.

What is `0xFFFF`

The ‘Open Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher’ aka 0xFFFF utility implements a free (GPL3) userspace handler for the NOLO bootloader and related utilities for the Nokia Internet Tablets like flashing setting device options, packing/unpacking FIASCO firmware format and more.

We can use yum or dnf to install 0xFFFF on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install 0xFFFF.

Install 0xFFFF on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install 0xFFFF using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install 0xFFFF

Install 0xFFFF on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install 0xFFFF using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install 0xFFFF

How To Uninstall 0xFFFF on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the 0xFFFF package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove 0xFFFF

0xFFFF Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/0xFFFF
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/33c9552dadc668dd96ea3595b1cef79171e818
/usr/share/doc/0xFFFF
/usr/share/doc/0xFFFF/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/0xFFFF/README
/usr/share/licenses/0xFFFF
/usr/share/licenses/0xFFFF/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/0xFFFF.1.gz

References

0xFFFF website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install 0xFFFF on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.