How To Install efivar-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. efivar-libs.x86_64 is Library to manage UEFI variables

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install efivar-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `efivar-libs.x86_64`

Library to allow for the simple manipulation of UEFI variables.

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

Install efivar-libs.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 efivar-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install efivar-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall efivar-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the efivar-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove efivar-libs.x86_64

efivar-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libefiboot.so.1
/usr/lib64/libefiboot.so.1.31
/usr/lib64/libefivar.so.1
/usr/lib64/libefivar.so.1.31

References

efivar-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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