How To Install tegrarcm on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tegrarcm
on Fedora 34.
What is tegrarcm
This program is used to send code to a Tegra device in recovery mode. It does not supported locked devices with an encrypted boot key, only open devices such as the ventana, cardhu, or dalmore reference boards. It is not capable of flashing firmware to a device, but can be used to download firmware that is then capable of flashing. For example in ChromeOS tegrarcm is used to download a special build of u-boot to the target Tegra device with a payload that it then flashes to the boot device.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install tegrarcm
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tegrarcm.
Install tegrarcm 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 tegrarcm
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tegrarcm
Install tegrarcm 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 tegrarcm
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tegrarcm
How To Uninstall tegrarcm on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the tegrarcm
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tegrarcm
tegrarcm Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/tegrarcm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/f388d37f31606b3ab36062231421ff7b125756
/usr/share/doc/tegrarcm
/usr/share/doc/tegrarcm/README
/usr/share/licenses/tegrarcm
/usr/share/licenses/tegrarcm/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/tegrarcm.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tegrarcm
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.