How To Install centos-release-kmods-rebuild on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-kmods-rebuild on CentOS 8.
What is centos-release-kmods-rebuild
Configs for the CentOS Kmods SIG rebuild repository. Packages in this repository contain rebuilds of kernel modules provided by CentOS Stream.
We can use yum or dnf to install centos-release-kmods-rebuild on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install centos-release-kmods-rebuild.
Install centos-release-kmods-rebuild on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install centos-release-kmods-rebuild using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install centos-release-kmods-rebuild
Install centos-release-kmods-rebuild on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install centos-release-kmods-rebuild using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install centos-release-kmods-rebuild
How To Uninstall centos-release-kmods-rebuild on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the centos-release-kmods-rebuild package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove centos-release-kmods-rebuild
centos-release-kmods-rebuild Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Kmods-Rebuild.repo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-kmods-rebuild on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.