How To Install grubby on Fedora 34

grubby is Command line tool for updating bootloader configs

Introduction

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

What is grubby

This package provides a grubby compatibility script that manages BootLoaderSpec files and is meant to only be used for legacy compatibility users with existing grubby users.

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

Install grubby 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 grubby using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install grubby

Install grubby 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 grubby using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install grubby

How To Uninstall grubby on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove grubby

grubby Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/6554378f1641a350bf61da6f3ead2e6b145e1b
/usr/lib/kernel/install.d/10-devicetree.install
/usr/lib/kernel/install.d/95-kernel-hooks.install
/usr/libexec/grubby
/usr/libexec/grubby/grubby-bls
/usr/libexec/grubby/rpm-sort
/usr/libexec/installkernel
/usr/libexec/installkernel/installkernel-bls
/usr/sbin/grubby
/usr/sbin/installkernel
/usr/share/licenses/grubby
/usr/share/licenses/grubby/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/grubby.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/installkernel.8.gz

References

Summary

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