How To Install mkosi on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkosi on CentOS 8.
What is mkosi
A fancy wrapper around “dnf –installroot”, “debootstrap” and “pacstrap”, that may generate disk images with a number of bells and whistles. Generated images are “legacy-free”. This means only GPT disk labels (and no MBR disk labels) are supported, and only systemd based images may be generated. Moreover, for bootable images only EFI systems are supported (not plain MBR/BIOS).
We can use yum or dnf to install mkosi on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mkosi.
Install mkosi 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 mkosi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mkosi
Install mkosi 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 mkosi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mkosi
How To Uninstall mkosi on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the mkosi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mkosi
mkosi Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/mkosi
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/printer.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/printer.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/printer.py
/usr/share/doc/mkosi
/usr/share/doc/mkosi/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/mkosi
/usr/share/licenses/mkosi/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/mkosi.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkosi on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.