How To Install abootimg on Fedora 34

abootimg is Tool for manipulating Android boot images

Introduction

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

What is abootimg

abootimg is used to manipulate block devices or files with the special partition format defined by the Android Open Source Project.

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

Install abootimg 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 abootimg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abootimg

Install abootimg 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 abootimg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abootimg

How To Uninstall abootimg on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the abootimg package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove abootimg

abootimg Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/abootimg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/7c1173b261653610d2f31edd6980d320572889
/usr/share/doc/abootimg
/usr/share/doc/abootimg/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/abootimg/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/abootimg/README
/usr/share/man/man1/abootimg.1.gz

References

Summary

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