How to Install and Uninstall dracut-network Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "dracut-network" package

This tutorial shows how to install dracut-network on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                dracut-network
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "dracut-network" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall dracut-network on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                dracut-network
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the dracut-network package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: dracut-network
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 240
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Thomas Lange
Architecture: all
Source: dracut
Version: 044+3-3
Depends: dracut-core, iputils-arping, isc-dhcp-client
Recommends: nfs-common, open-iscsi, nbd-client, curl
Filename: pool/universe/d/dracut/dracut-network_044+3-3_all.deb
Size: 43278
MD5sum: d592a059276e28462ed3dfb85b569ba3
SHA1: 15f2a419af77009ed107e29c9c3831b76c7f65b8
SHA256: 27c8a180034ed3ec1f815e09770ca94e7b44bab32274e9644abe6094b7931e97
Description-en: Low-level tool for generating an initramfs image
Unlike existing initramfs's, this is an attempt at having as little as
possible hard-coded into the initramfs as possible. The initramfs has
(basically) one purpose in life -- getting the rootfs mounted so that
we can transition to the real rootfs. This is all driven off of
device availability. Therefore, instead of scripts hard-coded to do
various things, we depend on udev to create device nodes for us and
then when we have the rootfs's device node, we mount and carry on.
Having the root on MD, LVM2, LUKS is supported as well as NFS, iSCSI,
NBD and FCOE with dracut-network.
Description-md5: 778a39ed47e9ead798365ca95496b464
Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu