How To Install efivar-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar-devel on CentOS 7. efivar-devel is Development headers for libefivar

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar-devel on CentOS 7.

What is efivar-devel

development headers required to use libefivar.

We can use yum or dnf to install efivar-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install efivar-devel.

Install efivar-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install efivar-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install efivar-devel

Install efivar-devel on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install efivar-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install efivar-devel

How To Uninstall efivar-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the efivar-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove efivar-devel

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.