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

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dracut-tools.x86_64 is dracut tools to build the local initramfs

Introduction

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

What is `dracut-tools.x86_64`

This package contains tools to assemble the local initrd and host configuration.

We can use yum to install dracut-tools.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-tools.x86_64.

Install dracut-tools.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-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dracut-tools.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove dracut-tools.x86_64

dracut-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/boot/dracut
/usr/bin/dracut-catimages
/usr/share/man/man8/dracut-catimages.8.gz
/var/lib/dracut
/var/lib/dracut/overlay

References

dracut-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

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