How To Install kiwi-systemdeps-containers on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install kiwi-systemdeps-containers on Rocky Linux 8. kiwi-systemdeps-containers is KIWI - host requirements for container images

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kiwi-systemdeps-containers on Rocky Linux 8.

What is kiwi-systemdeps-containers

Host setup helper to pull in all packages required/useful on the build host to build container images e.g docker, wsl

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

Install kiwi-systemdeps-containers 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 kiwi-systemdeps-containers using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kiwi-systemdeps-containers

Install kiwi-systemdeps-containers 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 kiwi-systemdeps-containers using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kiwi-systemdeps-containers

How To Uninstall kiwi-systemdeps-containers on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the kiwi-systemdeps-containers package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kiwi-systemdeps-containers

kiwi-systemdeps-containers Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kiwi-systemdeps-containers on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.