How To Install efivar-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar-libs.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. efivar-libs.i686 is Library to manage UEFI variables

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `efivar-libs.i686`

Library to allow for the simple manipulation of UEFI variables.

We can use yum to install efivar-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install efivar-libs.i686.

Install efivar-libs.i686 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 efivar-libs.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install efivar-libs.i686

How To Uninstall efivar-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the efivar-libs.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove efivar-libs.i686

efivar-libs.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libefiboot.so.1
/usr/lib/libefiboot.so.1.31
/usr/lib/libefivar.so.1
/usr/lib/libefivar.so.1.31

References

efivar-libs.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar-libs.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.