How To Install kiwi-pxeboot on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kiwi-pxeboot on CentOS 8.
What is kiwi-pxeboot
This package contains the basic PXE directory structure which is needed to serve kiwi built images via PXE.
We can use yum or dnf to install kiwi-pxeboot on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kiwi-pxeboot.
Install kiwi-pxeboot on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install kiwi-pxeboot using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kiwi-pxeboot
Install kiwi-pxeboot on CentOS 8 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install kiwi-pxeboot using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kiwi-pxeboot
How To Uninstall kiwi-pxeboot on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the kiwi-pxeboot package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kiwi-pxeboot
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kiwi-pxeboot on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.