Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosdevname on CentOS 8.
What is biosdevname
biosdevname in its simplest form takes a kernel device name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it “should†be. This is necessary on systems where the BIOS name for a given device (e.g. the label on the chassis is “Gb1â€) doesn’t map directly and obviously to the kernel name (e.g. eth0).
We can use yum or dnf to install biosdevname on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install biosdevname.
Install biosdevname on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install biosdevname using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install biosdevname
Install biosdevname on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install biosdevname using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install biosdevname
How To Uninstall biosdevname on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the biosdevname package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove biosdevname
biosdevname Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/19692d29199568bf5ea19a131af3bd9d45acd4
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/71-biosdevname.rules
/usr/sbin/biosdevname
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/biosdevname/README
/usr/share/man/man1/biosdevname.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install biosdevname on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
