How To Install fwts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fwts in Fedora 36. fwts is Firmware Test Suite

Introduction

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

What is fwts

Firmware Test Suite (FWTS) is a test suite that performs sanity checks on Intel/AMD PC firmware. It is intended to identify BIOS and ACPI errors and if appropriate it will try to explain the errors and give advice to help workaround or fix firmware bugs. It is primarily intended to be a Linux-specific firmware troubleshooting tool.

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

Install fwts 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 fwts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fwts

Install fwts 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 fwts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fwts

How To Uninstall fwts on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove fwts

fwts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/fwts
/usr/bin/kernelscan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/8dd1b2d1e96dbbf88df47e159cef1dcb10be5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/83aa731048451a75f5939b4d4778bdad8b0a4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/4c9ff2d5f59b36c3e98ecea68910890ee81d0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/52b8b61a4bdf8565e1db89467654816d26c65a
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/4e61956f3e910cd66adad88229c0ba5b15ba93
/usr/lib64/fwts
/usr/lib64/fwts/libfwts.so
/usr/lib64/fwts/libfwts.so.1
/usr/lib64/fwts/libfwts.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/fwts/libfwtsacpica.so
/usr/lib64/fwts/libfwtsacpica.so.1
/usr/lib64/fwts/libfwtsacpica.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/fwts/libfwtsiasl.so
/usr/lib64/fwts/libfwtsiasl.so.1
/usr/lib64/fwts/libfwtsiasl.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/fwts
/usr/share/doc/fwts
/usr/share/doc/fwts/README
/usr/share/doc/fwts/README_ACPICA.txt
/usr/share/fwts
/usr/share/fwts/clog.json
/usr/share/fwts/klog.json
/usr/share/fwts/olog.json
/usr/share/fwts/syntaxcheck.json
/usr/share/licenses/fwts
/usr/share/licenses/fwts/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/fwts-collect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fwts-frontend-text.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fwts.1.gz

References

Summary

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