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