How To Install mkosi on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mkosi in Fedora 36. mkosi is Create bespoke OS images

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mkosi on Fedora 36.

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 tailed to the purose. This means GPT disk labels are used by default, though MBR disk labels are supported, and only systemd based images may be generated.

We can use yum or dnf to install mkosi on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mkosi.

Install mkosi on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mkosi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mkosi

Install mkosi on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

To uninstall only the mkosi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mkosi

mkosi Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/mkosi
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi-12-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi-12-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi-12-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi-12-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi-12-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/backend.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/backend.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/gentoo.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/gentoo.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/manifest.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/manifest.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/backend.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/gentoo.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/manifest.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch/60_kernel_remove.hook
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch/60_vmlinuz_remove.hook
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch/90_kernel_add.hook
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch/90_vmlinuz_add.hook
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch/91_bootctl_update.hook
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch/kernel_add.sh
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/arch/kernel_remove.sh
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/console_getty_autologin.conf
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/dracut_unified_kernel_install.sh
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/getty_autologin.conf
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mkosi/resources/serial_getty_autologin.conf
/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).