How To Install dracut-fips-aesni.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-fips-aesni.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dracut-fips-aesni.x86_64 is dracut modules to build a dracut initramfs with an integrity check

Introduction

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

What is `dracut-fips-aesni.x86_64`

This package requires everything which is needed to build an initramfs with dracut, which does an integrity check and adds the aesni-intel kernel module.

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

Install dracut-fips-aesni.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 dracut-fips-aesni.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dracut-fips-aesni.x86_64

How To Uninstall dracut-fips-aesni.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove dracut-fips-aesni.x86_64

dracut-fips-aesni.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/02fips-aesni
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/02fips-aesni/module-setup.sh
/usr/share/doc/dracut-fips-aesni-033
/usr/share/doc/dracut-fips-aesni-033/COPYING

References

dracut-fips-aesni.x86_64 website

Summary

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