How To Install efibootmgr on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install efibootmgr on Fedora 34.
What is efibootmgr
efibootmgr displays and allows the user to edit the Intel Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager variables. Additional information about EFI can be found at https
We can use yum or dnf to install efibootmgr on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install efibootmgr.
Install efibootmgr 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 efibootmgr using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install efibootmgr
Install efibootmgr 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 efibootmgr using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install efibootmgr
How To Uninstall efibootmgr on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the efibootmgr package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove efibootmgr
efibootmgr Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/23cb3f94a7bf1aa44fcde89a4c7baf9ac23f36
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/2f988f0b875759b61a7b3f756d463686730595
/usr/sbin/efibootdump
/usr/sbin/efibootmgr
/usr/share/doc/efibootmgr
/usr/share/doc/efibootmgr/README
/usr/share/licenses/efibootmgr
/usr/share/licenses/efibootmgr/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/efibootdump.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/efibootmgr.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install efibootmgr on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.