dracut.x86_64 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Last updated: March 22,2023

1. Install dracut.x86_64 package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install dracut.x86_64 package:

sudo dnf makecache

sudo dnf install dracut.x86_64

2. Uninstall / Remove dracut.x86_64 package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall dracut.x86_64 package:

sudo dnf remove dracut.x86_64

sudo dnf autoremove

3. Details of dracut.x86_64 package

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Installed Packages

Name         : dracut

Version      : 049

Release      : 95.git20200804.el8_3.4

Architecture : x86_64

Size         : 1.0 M

Source       : dracut-049-95.git20200804.el8_3.4.src.rpm

Repository   : @System

From repo    : anaconda

Summary      : Initramfs generator using udev

URL          : https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/

License      : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+

Description  : dracut contains tools to create bootable initramfses for the Linux

             : kernel. Unlike previous implementations, dracut hard-codes as little

             : as possible into the initramfs. dracut contains various modules which

             : are driven by the event-based udev. Having root on MD, DM, LVM2, LUKS

             : is supported as well as NFS, iSCSI, NBD, FCoE with the dracut-network

             : package.