How To Install dracut-fips.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-fips.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dracut-fips.x86_64 is dracut modules to build a dracut initramfs with an integrity check

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-fips.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dracut-fips.x86_64`

This package requires everything which is needed to build an initramfs with dracut, which does an integrity check.

We can use yum to install dracut-fips.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dracut-fips.x86_64.

Install dracut-fips.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dracut-fips.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dracut-fips.x86_64

How To Uninstall dracut-fips.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dracut-fips.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dracut-fips.x86_64

dracut-fips.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/system-fips
/usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/40-fips.conf
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/01fips
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/01fips/fips-boot.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/01fips/fips-noboot.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/01fips/fips.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/01fips/module-setup.sh

References

dracut-fips.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-fips.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.