Information about the package, efibootmgr, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The efibootmgr package is designed for, EFI Boot Manager.
Package Name:
efibootmgr
Summary:
EFI Boot Manager
Description:
efibootmgr displays and allows the user to edit the Intel Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager variables. Additional information about EFI can be found at http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/efi.htm and http://uefi.org/.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.5.4
Release:
15.el6
Size:
71 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the efibootmgr package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install efibootmgr
This command will install efibootmgr on the server.
yum remove efibootmgr
This command will un-install efibootmgr on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove efibootmgr, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove efibootmgr
This command will un-install efibootmgr 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 efibootmgr when using the -y flag.
yum update efibootmgr
This command will update efibootmgr to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove efibootmgr, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update efibootmgr
This command will update efibootmgr 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 efibootmgr when using the -y flag.
yum info efibootmgr
This command will show you core information about the efibootmgr package.
yum deplist efibootmgr
This command will show you the dependencies for efibootmgr. 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 efibootmgr
This command will check if there is an update waiting on efibootmgr. 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.