How To Install SLOF on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install SLOF in Fedora 36. SLOF is Slimline Open Firmware

Introduction

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

What is SLOF

Slimline Open Firmware (SLOF) is initialization and boot source code based on the IEEE-1275 (Open Firmware) standard, developed by engineers of the IBM Corporation. The SLOF source code provides illustrates what’s needed to initialize and boot Linux or a hypervisor on the industry Open Firmware boot standard. Note that you normally wouldn’t need to install this package separately. It is a dependency of qemu-system-ppc64.

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

Install SLOF 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 SLOF using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install SLOF

Install SLOF 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 SLOF using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install SLOF

How To Uninstall SLOF on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove SLOF

SLOF Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/SLOF
/usr/share/doc/SLOF/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/SLOF/README
/usr/share/qemu
/usr/share/qemu/slof.bin

References

Summary

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