How To Install edk2-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install edk2-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. edk2-tools.x86_64 is EFI Development Kit II Tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install edk2-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `edk2-tools.x86_64`

This package provides tools that are needed to build EFI executables and ROMs using the GNU tools.

We can use yum to install edk2-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install edk2-tools.x86_64.

Install edk2-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install edk2-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install edk2-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall edk2-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the edk2-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove edk2-tools.x86_64

edk2-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/DevicePath
/usr/bin/EfiRom
/usr/bin/GenCrc32
/usr/bin/GenFfs
/usr/bin/GenFv
/usr/bin/GenFw
/usr/bin/GenSec
/usr/bin/LzmaCompress
/usr/bin/LzmaF86Compress
/usr/bin/Split
/usr/bin/TianoCompress
/usr/bin/VfrCompile
/usr/bin/VolInfo
/usr/share/edk2
/usr/share/edk2/BuildEnv
/usr/share/edk2/Conf
/usr/share/edk2/Conf/build_rule.template
/usr/share/edk2/Conf/target.template
/usr/share/edk2/Conf/tools_def.template
/usr/share/edk2/Scripts
/usr/share/edk2/Scripts/GccBase.lds
/usr/share/licenses/edk2-tools-20200801stable
/usr/share/licenses/edk2-tools-20200801stable/LICENSE.openssl
/usr/share/licenses/edk2-tools-20200801stable/License.txt

References

edk2-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install edk2-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.