How To Install ec2-hibinit-agent on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ec2-hibinit-agent on Rocky Linux 8. ec2-hibinit-agent is Hibernation setup utility for Amazon EC2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ec2-hibinit-agent on Rocky Linux 8.

What is ec2-hibinit-agent

An EC2 agent that creates a setup for instance hibernation

We can use yum or dnf to install ec2-hibinit-agent on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ec2-hibinit-agent.

Install ec2-hibinit-agent 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 ec2-hibinit-agent using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ec2-hibinit-agent

Install ec2-hibinit-agent 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 ec2-hibinit-agent using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ec2-hibinit-agent

How To Uninstall ec2-hibinit-agent on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the ec2-hibinit-agent package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ec2-hibinit-agent

ec2-hibinit-agent Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/acpi/actions/sleep.sh
/etc/acpi/events/sleepconf
/etc/hibinit-config.cfg
/etc/tuned/nothp_profile
/etc/tuned/nothp_profile/tuned.conf
/usr/bin/hibinit-agent
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2_hibinit_agent-1.0.2-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2_hibinit_agent-1.0.2-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2_hibinit_agent-1.0.2-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2_hibinit_agent-1.0.2-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2_hibinit_agent-1.0.2-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf.d
/usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf.d/00-hibinit-agent.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep
/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/sleep-handler.sh
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hibinit-agent.service
/usr/share/doc/ec2-hibinit-agent
/usr/share/doc/ec2-hibinit-agent/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ec2-hibinit-agent
/usr/share/licenses/ec2-hibinit-agent/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/selinux/packages/ec2hibernatepolicy.pp.bz2
/var/lib/hibinit-agent
/var/lib/hibinit-agent/hibernation-enabled

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ec2-hibinit-agent on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.