How To Install grub-customizer on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-customizer on CentOS 7. grub-customizer is Graphical GRUB2 settings manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-customizer on CentOS 7.

What is grub-customizer

Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the grub2/burg settings with focus on the individual list order - without losing the dynamical behavior of grub. The goal of this project is to create a complete and intuitive graphical grub2/burg configuration interface. The main feature is the boot entry list configuration - but not simply by modified the grub.cfg will only edit the script order and generate proxies (script output filter), if required.

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

Install grub-customizer on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install grub-customizer

Install grub-customizer 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 grub-customizer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install grub-customizer

How To Uninstall grub-customizer on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the grub-customizer package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove grub-customizer

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Summary

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