How To Install biosdevname on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosdevname on Rocky Linux 8.
What is biosdevname
biosdevname in its simplest form takes a kernel device name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it “should” be. This is necessary on systems where the BIOS name for a given device (e.g. the label on the chassis is “Gb1”) doesn’t map directly and obviously to the kernel name (e.g. eth0).
We can use yum or dnf to install biosdevname on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install biosdevname.
Install biosdevname on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install biosdevname using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install biosdevname
Install biosdevname on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install biosdevname using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install biosdevname
How To Uninstall biosdevname on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the biosdevname package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove biosdevname
biosdevname Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/cb44ba2be8b17cb6d1c3e21cb08787a45a0298
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/71-biosdevname.rules
/usr/sbin/biosdevname
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname/README
/usr/share/man/man1/biosdevname.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosdevname on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.