How To Install mkosi on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkosi on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mkosi.
Install mkosi on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the mkosi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mkosi
mkosi Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/mkosi
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/printer.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/printer.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.