How To Install dracut-config-generic on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-config-generic on Rocky Linux 8. dracut-config-generic is dracut configuration to turn off hostonly image generation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-config-generic on Rocky Linux 8.

What is dracut-config-generic

This package provides the configuration to turn off the host specific initramfs generation with dracut and generates a generic image by default.

We can use yum or dnf to install dracut-config-generic on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dracut-config-generic.

Install dracut-config-generic on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dracut-config-generic using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dracut-config-generic

Install dracut-config-generic on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dracut-config-generic using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dracut-config-generic

How To Uninstall dracut-config-generic on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the dracut-config-generic package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dracut-config-generic

dracut-config-generic Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/02-generic-image.conf

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-config-generic on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.