How To Install clevis-dracut.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-dracut.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. clevis-dracut.x86_64 is Dracut integration for clevis

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-dracut.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `clevis-dracut.x86_64`

Automatically unlocks LUKSv1 block devices in early boot.

We can use yum to install clevis-dracut.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clevis-dracut.x86_64.

Install clevis-dracut.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install clevis-dracut.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install clevis-dracut.x86_64

How To Uninstall clevis-dracut.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the clevis-dracut.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove clevis-dracut.x86_64

clevis-dracut.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/60clevis
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/60clevis/clevis-hook.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/60clevis/module-setup.sh

References

clevis-dracut.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clevis-dracut.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.