How To Install sgabios on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sgabios on Fedora 34.
What is sgabios
SGABIOS is designed to be inserted into a BIOS as an option rom to provide over a serial port the display and input capabilities normally handled by a VGA adapter and a keyboard, and additionally provide hooks for logging displayed characters for later collection after an operating system boots.
We can use yum or dnf to install sgabios on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sgabios.
Install sgabios 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 sgabios using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sgabios
Install sgabios 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 sgabios using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sgabios
How To Uninstall sgabios on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the sgabios package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sgabios
sgabios Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/share/doc/sgabios
/usr/share/doc/sgabios/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sgabios/design.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sgabios on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.