How To Install mkosi on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkosi
on AlmaLinux 8.
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 AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mkosi.
Install mkosi on AlmaLinux 8 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 AlmaLinux 8 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 AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the mkosi
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mkosi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkosi
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.