How To Install cbootimage on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install cbootimage in Fedora 36. cbootimage is Tools to dump and generate boot config table on Tegra devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cbootimage on Fedora 36.

What is cbootimage

This package contains two programs to parse the boot config table (bct) of Tegra SoC based devices and to generate a new bct with appended bootloader (e.g. u-boot) read to be flashed to a storage device. The boot config table is used in the early boot process to setup the sdhci, DRAM memory controller and also points to the position of the bootloader. For more information, see http

We can use yum or dnf to install cbootimage on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cbootimage.

Install cbootimage on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cbootimage using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cbootimage

Install cbootimage on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cbootimage using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cbootimage

How To Uninstall cbootimage on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove cbootimage

cbootimage Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/bct_dump
/usr/bin/cbootimage
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/c99d9db67dabdff59f2108bdd149102003d484
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/537a1657f3f1680f5cafe688f3c52cbc76d8a8
/usr/share/doc/cbootimage
/usr/share/doc/cbootimage/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/bct_dump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cbootimage.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cbootimage on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).