How To Install upslug2 on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install upslug2 in Fedora 36. upslug2 is Firmware update utility for the nslu2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install upslug2 on Fedora 36.

What is upslug2

upslug2 is a command line program intended to allow the upgrade of a LinkSys NSLU2 firmware to new or different versions. Unlike upslug and the LinkSys (Sercomm) upgrade utilities, upslug2 will synthesise a complete ‘image’ from a kernel and a root file system, as such it duplicates part of the functionality of ‘slugimage’. upslug2 also optimizes the upload to avoid transmitted parts of the image which need not be written or are ‘blank’ (set to the erased flash value of all 1’s).

We can use yum or dnf to install upslug2 on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install upslug2.

Install upslug2 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 upslug2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install upslug2

Install upslug2 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 upslug2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install upslug2

How To Uninstall upslug2 on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the upslug2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove upslug2

upslug2 Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/0fafec853da00e655b03150750f0c6a49443f1
/usr/sbin/upslug2
/usr/share/doc/upslug2
/usr/share/doc/upslug2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/upslug2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/upslug2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/upslug2/README
/usr/share/man/man8/upslug2.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install upslug2 on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).