How To Install iucode-tool on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install iucode-tool on Rocky Linux 8. iucode-tool is iucode_tool is a program to manipulate microcode update collections for Intel i686 and X86-64 system processors, and prepare them for use by the Linux kernel

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iucode-tool on Rocky Linux 8.

What is iucode-tool

iucode_tool is a program to manipulate microcode update collections for Intel i686 and X86-64 system processors, and prepare them for use by the Linux kernel.

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

Install iucode-tool 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 iucode-tool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iucode-tool

Install iucode-tool 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 iucode-tool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iucode-tool

How To Uninstall iucode-tool on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the iucode-tool package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove iucode-tool

iucode-tool Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/95f5499779dc2bf03db750a8d87a2f47c02a57
/usr/sbin/iucode_tool
/usr/share/doc/iucode-tool
/usr/share/doc/iucode-tool/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/iucode-tool/README
/usr/share/doc/iucode-tool/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/iucode-tool
/usr/share/licenses/iucode-tool/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/iucode_tool.8.gz

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Summary

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