How To Install fwupdate-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fwupdate-libs on Rocky Linux 8. fwupdate-libs is Library to manage UEFI firmware updates

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fwupdate-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is fwupdate-libs

Library to allow for the simple manipulation of UEFI firmware updates.

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

Install fwupdate-libs 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 fwupdate-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fwupdate-libs

Install fwupdate-libs 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 fwupdate-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fwupdate-libs

How To Uninstall fwupdate-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fwupdate-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fwupdate-libs

fwupdate-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/ac071c242150d1aa584b2f610ee3dc41c57143
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fwupdate-cleanup.service
/usr/lib64/libfwup.so.1
/usr/lib64/libfwup.so.1.11
/usr/libexec/fwupdate
/usr/libexec/fwupdate/cleanup
/usr/share/locale/en/libfwup.po
/var/lib/fwupdate
/var/lib/fwupdate/done

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Summary

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