How To Install dracut-kiwi-live on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-kiwi-live
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is dracut-kiwi-live
This package contains the kiwi-live dracut module which is used for booting iso(live) images built with KIWI
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dracut-kiwi-live
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dracut-kiwi-live.
Install dracut-kiwi-live on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install dracut-kiwi-live
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dracut-kiwi-live
Install dracut-kiwi-live on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install dracut-kiwi-live
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dracut-kiwi-live
How To Uninstall dracut-kiwi-live on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the dracut-kiwi-live
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dracut-kiwi-live
dracut-kiwi-live Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-live
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-live/kiwi-generator.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-live/kiwi-live-checkmedia.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-live/kiwi-live-genrules.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-live/kiwi-live-lib.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-live/kiwi-live-net-genrules.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-live/kiwi-live-root.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-live/module-setup.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-live/parse-kiwi-live.sh
/usr/share/licenses/dracut-kiwi-live
/usr/share/licenses/dracut-kiwi-live/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-kiwi-live
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.