How To Install grub2-tools-efi on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub2-tools-efi on Rocky Linux 8.
What is grub2-tools-efi
The GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) is a highly configurable and customizable bootloader with modular architecture. It supports a rich variety of kernel formats, file systems, computer architectures and hardware devices. This subpackage provides tools for support of EFI platforms.
We can use yum or dnf to install grub2-tools-efi on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grub2-tools-efi.
Install grub2-tools-efi 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 grub2-tools-efi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install grub2-tools-efi
Install grub2-tools-efi 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 grub2-tools-efi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install grub2-tools-efi
How To Uninstall grub2-tools-efi on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the grub2-tools-efi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove grub2-tools-efi
grub2-tools-efi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/grub2-render-label
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/77073c8293a69a4eda16847685e977576665b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/88c6b72969ae05b94ac0875267530d68ac52c6
/usr/sbin/grub2-macbless
/usr/share/man/man1/grub2-render-label.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/grub2-macbless.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub2-tools-efi on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.