How To Install rtkit on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtkit on Rocky Linux 8.
What is rtkit
RealtimeKit is a D-Bus system service that changes the scheduling policy of user processes/threads to SCHED_RR (i.e. realtime scheduling mode) on request. It is intended to be used as a secure mechanism to allow real-time scheduling to be used by normal user processes.
We can use yum or dnf to install rtkit on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rtkit.
Install rtkit 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 rtkit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rtkit
Install rtkit 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 rtkit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rtkit
How To Uninstall rtkit on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the rtkit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rtkit
rtkit Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/5a1f5f260212dfdcaf90a0592838bf01e523a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/b11843e5d96c115da55a511bd5a56b31e05bf9
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rtkit-daemon.service
/usr/libexec/rtkit-daemon
/usr/sbin/rtkitctl
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.service
/usr/share/doc/rtkit
/usr/share/doc/rtkit/GPL
/usr/share/doc/rtkit/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/rtkit/README
/usr/share/doc/rtkit/rtkit.c
/usr/share/doc/rtkit/rtkit.h
/usr/share/man/man8/rtkitctl.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.policy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rtkit on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.