How To Install dracut-config-ec2.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-config-ec2.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. dracut-config-ec2.noarch is Dracut configuration for Amazon EC2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-config-ec2.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dracut-config-ec2.noarch`

Dracut configuration for EC2 instance ramdisk image generation

We can use yum to install dracut-config-ec2.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dracut-config-ec2.noarch.

Install dracut-config-ec2.noarch 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 dracut-config-ec2.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dracut-config-ec2.noarch

How To Uninstall dracut-config-ec2.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dracut-config-ec2.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dracut-config-ec2.noarch

dracut-config-ec2.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/dracut.conf.d/ec2.conf
/etc/dracut.conf.d/xen.conf
/usr/lib/sysctl.d/99-ipv6.conf

References

dracut-config-ec2.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-config-ec2.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.