How To Install dbxtool on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dbxtool on Rocky Linux 8.

What is dbxtool

This package contains DBX updates for UEFI Secure Boot.

We can use yum or dnf to install dbxtool on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dbxtool.

Install dbxtool 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 dbxtool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dbxtool

Install dbxtool 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 dbxtool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dbxtool

How To Uninstall dbxtool on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove dbxtool

dbxtool Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/dbxtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/6117e8b0716f0b5ee4190393251592ee4e3012
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbxtool.service
/usr/share/dbxtool
/usr/share/dbxtool/DBXUpdate-2016-08-09-13-16-00.bin
/usr/share/licenses/dbxtool
/usr/share/licenses/dbxtool/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/dbxtool.1.gz

References

• dbxtool website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dbxtool on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.