How To Install dracut-kiwi-lib on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-kiwi-lib on CentOS 8.
What is dracut-kiwi-lib
This package contains a collection of methods to provide a library for tasks done in other kiwi dracut modules
We can use yum or dnf to install dracut-kiwi-lib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dracut-kiwi-lib.
Install dracut-kiwi-lib 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-kiwi-lib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dracut-kiwi-lib
Install dracut-kiwi-lib 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-kiwi-lib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dracut-kiwi-lib
How To Uninstall dracut-kiwi-lib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dracut-kiwi-lib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dracut-kiwi-lib
dracut-kiwi-lib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kiwi-lib
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kiwi-lib/kiwi-dialog-lib.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kiwi-lib/kiwi-filesystem-lib.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kiwi-lib/kiwi-lib.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kiwi-lib/kiwi-luks-lib.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kiwi-lib/kiwi-lvm-lib.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kiwi-lib/kiwi-mdraid-lib.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kiwi-lib/kiwi-net-lib.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kiwi-lib/kiwi-partitions-lib.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99kiwi-lib/module-setup.sh
/usr/share/licenses/dracut-kiwi-lib
/usr/share/licenses/dracut-kiwi-lib/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-kiwi-lib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.