How To Install dracut-kiwi-overlay on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-kiwi-overlay on CentOS 8.
What is dracut-kiwi-overlay
This package contains the kiwi-overlay dracut module which is used for booting vmx images built with KIWI and configured to use an overlay root filesystem
We can use yum or dnf to install dracut-kiwi-overlay on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dracut-kiwi-overlay.
Install dracut-kiwi-overlay 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-overlay using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dracut-kiwi-overlay
Install dracut-kiwi-overlay 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-overlay using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dracut-kiwi-overlay
How To Uninstall dracut-kiwi-overlay on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dracut-kiwi-overlay package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dracut-kiwi-overlay
dracut-kiwi-overlay Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-overlay
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-overlay/kiwi-generator.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-overlay/kiwi-overlay-root.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-overlay/module-setup.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90kiwi-overlay/parse-kiwi-overlay.sh
/usr/share/licenses/dracut-kiwi-overlay
/usr/share/licenses/dracut-kiwi-overlay/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-kiwi-overlay on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.