How To Install dracut-caps on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-caps on CentOS 8.
What is dracut-caps
This package requires everything which is needed to build an initramfs with dracut, which drops capabilities.
We can use yum or dnf to install dracut-caps on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dracut-caps.
Install dracut-caps 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 dracut-caps using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dracut-caps
Install dracut-caps 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 dracut-caps using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dracut-caps
How To Uninstall dracut-caps on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dracut-caps package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dracut-caps
dracut-caps Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/02caps
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/02caps/README
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/02caps/caps.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/02caps/module-setup.sh
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-caps on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.