Information about the package, edk2-tools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The edk2-tools package is designed for, EFI Development Kit II Tools.
Package Name:
edk2-tools
Summary:
EFI Development Kit II Tools
Description:
This package provides tools that are needed to build EFI executables and ROMs using the GNU tools.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
20140724svn2670
Release:
4.el6
Size:
323 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the edk2-tools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install edk2-tools
This command will install edk2-tools on the server.
yum remove edk2-tools
This command will un-install edk2-tools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove edk2-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove edk2-tools
This command will un-install edk2-tools on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove edk2-tools when using the -y flag.
yum update edk2-tools
This command will update edk2-tools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove edk2-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update edk2-tools
This command will update edk2-tools to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove edk2-tools when using the -y flag.
yum info edk2-tools
This command will show you core information about the edk2-tools package.
yum deplist edk2-tools
This command will show you the dependencies for edk2-tools. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update edk2-tools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on edk2-tools. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.