How To Install centos-release-kmods-rebuild on CentOS 8

centos-release-kmods-rebuild is CentOS Kmods SIG rebuild repo configs

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.