How To Install grubby-deprecated on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install grubby-deprecated in Fedora 36. grubby-deprecated is Legacy command line tool for updating bootloader configs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grubby-deprecated on Fedora 36.

What is grubby-deprecated

This package provides deprecated, legacy grubby. This is for temporary compatibility only. grubby is a command line tool for updating and displaying information about the configuration files for the grub, lilo, elilo (ia64), yaboot (powerpc) and zipl (s390) boot loaders. It is primarily designed to be used from scripts which install new kernels and need to find information about the current boot environment.

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

Install grubby-deprecated 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 grubby-deprecated using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install grubby-deprecated

Install grubby-deprecated 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 grubby-deprecated using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install grubby-deprecated

How To Uninstall grubby-deprecated on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove grubby-deprecated

grubby-deprecated Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/66186b99d63258f0c9c76ba49522dda289d297
/usr/libexec/grubby
/usr/libexec/grubby/grubby
/usr/libexec/installkernel
/usr/libexec/installkernel/installkernel
/usr/sbin/grubby
/usr/sbin/installkernel
/usr/sbin/new-kernel-pkg
/usr/share/licenses/grubby-deprecated
/usr/share/licenses/grubby-deprecated/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/grubby.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/installkernel.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/new-kernel-pkg.8.gz

References

Summary

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