How To Install mkosi on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkosi on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mkosi.
Install mkosi 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 mkosi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mkosi
Install mkosi 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 mkosi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mkosi
How To Uninstall mkosi on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the mkosi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mkosi
mkosi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/mkosi
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi-9-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/printer.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/__pycache__/printer.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mkosi/printer.py
/usr/share/doc/mkosi
/usr/share/doc/mkosi/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/mkosi
/usr/share/licenses/mkosi/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/mkosi.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkosi on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.