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Download Libreboot
Download the latest Libreboot Binaries.
Open a Terminal and navigate to the Downloads folder (or wherever else)
Extract the Libreboot folder: tar -xvf libreboot_bin.tar.gz
Navigate to the libreboot_bin folder: cd libreboot_bin
Install and Make Dependencies
The flashrom and bucts programs require a few dependencies. Install them automatically with the Libreboot builddeb scripts.
For DEB-based distros (Trisquel, Ubuntu, Debian, etc):
sudo ./deps-trisquel
For Arch-based distros (Parabola, Arch Linux, etc):
sudo ./deps-parabola
Other Linux distros will need to find the corresponding dependencies on their own.
Next, we actually have to build flashrom and bucts from source code. The Libreboot developers have made a nice build script that does this automatically:
sudo ./builddeps-flashrom
sudo ./builddeps-bucts