How To Install mkosi on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkosi on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mkosi.
Install mkosi on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mkosi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mkosi
Install mkosi 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 mkosi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mkosi
How To Uninstall mkosi on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the mkosi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mkosi
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkosi on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.