How To Install flashrom on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flashrom
on CentOS 7.
What is flashrom
flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various other programmer devices.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install flashrom
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flashrom.
Install flashrom on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install flashrom
using yum
by running the following command:
Install flashrom 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.
After updating yum database, We can install flashrom
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall flashrom on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the flashrom
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flashrom
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.