How To Install biosdevname on Fedora 34

biosdevname is Udev helper for naming devices per BIOS names

Introduction

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

What is `biosdevname`

biosdevname in its simplest form takes a kernel device name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it “should” be. This is necessary on systems where the BIOS name for a given device (e.g. the label on the chassis is “Gb1”) doesn’t map directly and obviously to the kernel name (e.g. eth0).

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

Install biosdevname 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 biosdevname using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install biosdevname

Install biosdevname 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 biosdevname using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install biosdevname

How To Uninstall biosdevname on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove biosdevname

biosdevname Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/2205939d6e6ecf8a58710112fbc6c57cd5ebac
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/71-biosdevname.rules
/usr/sbin/biosdevname
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname/README
/usr/share/man/man1/biosdevname.1.gz

References

biosdevname website

Summary

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