How To Install tboot on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tboot
on CentOS 7.
What is tboot
Trusted Boot (tboot) is an open source, pre-kernel/VMM module that uses Intel Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT) to perform a measured and verified launch of an OS kernel/VMM.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install tboot
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tboot.
Install tboot on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tboot
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tboot
Install tboot 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 tboot
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tboot
How To Uninstall tboot on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the tboot
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tboot
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tboot
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.