How To Install dracut-tools on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-tools on Rocky Linux 8.
What is dracut-tools
This package contains tools to assemble the local initrd and host configuration.
We can use yum or dnf to install dracut-tools on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dracut-tools.
Install dracut-tools 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-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dracut-tools
Install dracut-tools 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-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dracut-tools
How To Uninstall dracut-tools on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the dracut-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dracut-tools
dracut-tools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/boot/dracut
/usr/bin/dracut-catimages
/usr/share/man/man8/dracut-catimages.8.gz
/var/lib/dracut
/var/lib/dracut/overlay
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-tools on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.