Rocky Linux

Notes on Rocky Linux, CentOS, RHEL, DNF, RPM, and related distributions.

• 1. Extract the Changelogs Directly from the SRPMs

• A Good Collection of SAR Commands to Run on a CentOS System

• A Good Way of Finding CVEs and Other Information in a Source RPM

• Able To Query Directly Against An Rpm From A Repo

• Add IPs of all hosts to each /etc/hosts file

• Add IPs of all hosts to each /etc/hosts file

• All Rocky Linux Links

• Apptainer Command To Download A Particular Image

• Basic Slurm

• Browse Through All Potential Updates In Dnf

• Building Phodav On Rocky Linux 9 With Arm64 With U

• By Default, Sosreports Are Stored In Var Tmp

• CVEs in Older Versions Like CentOS Not Affecting Rocky Linux

• Cannot Send Icmp Pings Without Sudo In Apptainer

• Check That Kdump Is Installed On A Rhel Based Syst

• Check The Changelog Of A Package With Rpm

• Checking Dnf.Log For Package Errors

• Checking If You Have A Particular Rpm Package

• Command to Get the Full List of MSI / MSI-X Devices from an sosreport

• Command to Get the Full Total of MSI / MSI-X Capable Devices from an sosreport

• Completely Clean Out Apptainer S Cache

• Configuring Infiniband And Rdma Networks Rhel 9

• Configuring and Managing High Availability Clusters

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• Creating A Router On Rocky Linux 9.X

• Cuda On Warewulf Rocky Linux 9 Image With Rocky Li

• Current Workaround for Installing Docker on Rocky Linux 10

• Dnf Makecache

• Does Not Work Installing Folding@Home On Rocky L

• Doom Emacs Setup On Rocky Linux 9

• Elevate Tool Pushes Centos Box To Rocky 8

• Elevate Vertically Upgrade From Almalinux

• Ensure All Packages are Updated

• Find List Of An Installed Dnf Packages

• Find Maximum Capacity Of Ram In An Sosreport

• Fixes in Rocky Linux Can Come in the Form of Multiple Advisory Fixes and Not Only in the Changelogs

• FreeIPA Server Setup

• Function to read a list of RPM packages from a file

• Good Command To Check The Irq Balance Of Cpu Cores From An Sosreport

• Good Command in CentOS to Show What a Package Provides

• Good Command to Check IRQ Balance Config From an sosreport

• Good Command to Check the License Per Package in a Reposiory on Rocky Linux

• Good Example Of Rpm Build To Build A Package

• Good Example of Messaging on How Patches Come from Upstream into RHEL, then Rocky Linux

• Good Example of a Rocky Linux Kernel Release Date Investigation

• Good Explanation On Warewulf Profiles And Overlays

• Good Instructions on Repo Metadata Package Conflicts and How to Solve Them with dnf repoclosure

• Good Lectures On Setting Up Slurm And Warewulf

• Good Troubleshooting Command with Warewulf with the Warewulf Client

• Haproxy Setup On Rocky Linux 8

• How Add Fonts System Wide In Rocky Linux

• How Add Gui Rocky Linux Server

• How Add Repository To Rhel Based System

• How Check The Changelog Of A Package With Rpm

• How Download An Rpm Without Installing It

• How Enable Fips On A Rhel Based System

• How Extract The Binary From An Rpm Package

• How Find The Latest Version Of A Package In Dnf

• How Install All Input Methods On Rhel Based System

• How Install Development Tools Rocky Linux

• How Install Japanese Ime On Rhel Based Systems

• How Install Kubectl On A Rhel Based System

• How Install Pip3 On Rhel Based Distro

• How Install Sar On Rhel Based Systems

• How List All Current Repositories Set In Dnf

• How List All Repositories On A Rhel Based System

• How Pull An Image Using Apptainer

• How Refresh Dnf Metadata

• How Show Installed Packages With Dnf

• How Show The List Of Enabled Repos In Dnf

• How Start A Container In Apptainer

• How To Check Available Repositories With Dnf

• How To Check The Contents Of A Source Rpm

• How To Check The Pod Count Of An Sosreport

• How To Disable A Package In Dnf

• How To Download A Package Via Dnf And Skip Any Err

• How To Download An Rpm Only Using Dnf

• How To Encrypt A Rocky Linux 9.5 Installation With

• How To Exec Into A Warewulf Container

• How To Extract The Spec File From A Source Rpm

• How To Get Kompose Running On Rocky Linux

• How To Have The Elrepo Set Up On Rocky Linux And U

• How To Install Ansible Builder On Rocky Linux 9.X

• How To Install Ascender On Rocky Linux 9.X

• How To Install Bcachefs On Rocky Linux

• How To Install Kde On Rocky Linux 9.5

• How To Install Rocky Kernel Ml And Lt

• How To Install Sar With Yum

• How To Install The Crash Utility On Rocky Linux 8.

• How To List Available Nodes In Warewulf

• How To List Files In Warewulf

• How To Run Openscap On Rocky Linux 8.10

• How To Send A Test Message From A Rocky Linux Serv

• How To Set And Install The Rt Kernel In Rocky Linu

• How To Set Up Apptainer On Rocky Linux 8.10

• How To Setup A Freeipa Server On Rocky Linux 9

• How To Setup A Freeipa Server On Rocky Linux 9 (Do

• How To Setup A Newly Installed Resf Rocky Linux Ma

• How To Setup A Rocky Linux 9.5 Instance As A Samba

• How To Setup A Rocky Linux Box For Centos Vmcore C

• How To Setup An Ansible Job On Kubernetes On Rocky

• How To Stop A Container In Apptainer

• How Unrar A Rar File In Rhel Based Distro

• How Unzip Sosreport With Zipbomb Issue

• How Update Grub In Rocky Linux

• How Use Apptainer And Pull A Certain Version (Tag)

• How Warewulf Handles Kernels

• How to Add a Static DHCP Entry into Warewulf 4.5.x and 4.6.x

• How to Check Through The Source Code of an RPM, with systemd as an example:

• How to Creat a Raspberry Pi Rocky Linux USB Maker

• How to Create a Local Repository for DNF to Ingest

• How to Downgrade All Packages to a Particular Rocky Linux Version

• How to Download a Source RPM with DNF and Install it to See the Patches

• How to Download the RT Kernel Source Code for Rocky Linux 8 and 9

• How to Download the rhcert CLI RPMs from Red Hat

• How to Enable CIQ Bridge on CentOS 7.9

• How to Enable Log Rotation on Rocky Linux

• How to Enable a Japanese IME in Rocky Linux 9.6

• How to Get 7zip Support on Rocky Linux 10

• How to Get Rid of a GPG Key Installed on Rocky Linux

• How to Get Rocky Linux to Pass Red Hat Certification Testing

• How to Install Mullvad VPN on Rocky Linux 10

• How to Install Rocky Linux on the Liva Z Mini PC

• How to Install a VNC Server on XFCE on Rocky Linux 9.6

• How to Install syncthing on Rocky Linux

• How to Install the Latest Version of Emacs on Rocky Linux 9

• How to Point to the EPEL Repository Archive to Download Packages that are No Longer Available for Rocky Linux 9.6 and lower distribution versions.

• How to Remove a Repository from Rocky Linux

• How to Run Benchmarking for PingPong and allreduce on a Rocky Linux image:

• How to Set Up Video Playback Support (H.264) and More on Rocky Linux 9

• How to Set XFCE to Dark Mode in Rocky Linux

• How to Set a High Error and Debug Output with the Yum Command

• How to Set the Rocky Linux Logo Back in the Start Menu of KDE

• How to Set virt-manager to Dark Mode on Rocky Linux 10

• How to Setup Apptainer on Ubuntu 24.04

• How to Setup KDE on Rocky Linux 10 Server

• How to Setup Rootless Podman on Rocky Linux

• How to Setup Warewulf Pro - Bonus, Also Using Proxmox

• How to Setup a PXE Server on Rocky Linux 9.x

• How to Setup a Raspberry Pi to Setup Bootable Rocky Linux USB Sticks

• How to Switch to a Specific Rocky Linux Version Once the Kernel Source Tree Has Been Downloaded

• How to Upgrade from Rocky Linux 10 to Rocky Linux 10.1 via the Staging Branch

• How to Verify the irqbalance Process is Not Running in an sosreport

• How to analyse slow boot in RHEL-7 and later ?

• How to install tshark on Rocky Linux 9.5

• How to use tlog to record and playback recorded user sessions?

• If In the Right Directory with a File Can Link Using the File Name Only

• If Observe An Sosreport Is Not Extracting Due To P

• If Observe Ld Preload Issue On Rocky Linux 10 With Steam Installed Solution

• If People Ask About the rocky-stats Website and a Fluctuation in Numbers

• If Rocky Linux 8.10 Is Not Seeing Any Drives

• If Run Dnf Install Y Ciq And Receive A Repomd.Xml

• If Screen Command Is Not Available In Rhel Distro

• If Unable To Connect To Samba Share On A Rhel Base

• If Wireguard is Giving ‘Failed to set DNS configuration’ errors on Rocky Linux 9

• If Writing Directly to a File in Warewulf and Why Not to Do it

• If You Receive a 403 When Accessing Vault Repodata in Rocky Linux

• If You Want To Disable Repositories In Centos 7.9

• Information on the Rocky Linux Testing Team

• Install rocky 10 on vmware failure

• Ipv6 Support In Warewulf 2025 11 06

• Ipxe Server On Rocky Linux 9.X Setup Steps

• It Is Possible To Upgrade A Rocky Linux Container

• Japanese IME Input Setup - Rocky Linux 10 KDE

• Japanese Ime Setup On Rocky Linux 9 For Mate

• Japanese Language Support on KDE on Rocky Linux

• Katello Is Upstream Red Hat Satellite

• Kernel Packages For Rocky Linux

• Kernel receives unexpected unknown NMI in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3

• Kickstart File that Works with Rocky Linux 9

• Lab 4: Advanced System and process monitoring

• Leap Red Hat Tool To Move Between Major Upgrades

• Learnings from Submitting PR 3100 to the Rocky Linux Docs

• List All Available Repositories In Dnf

• List All Packages Installed In Rhel Based Systems

• Listing Installed Packages With Dnf And Rpm

• Migrating A Centos 7.9 Vm To Microsoft Azure

• Nagios Client On Rocky Linux 8.10 Setup

• Nagios Client on Rocky Linux 9.5 Non-FIPS with EPEL Packages Setup

• Nagios Server On Rocky Linux 8.10 Setup

• Nagios Server on Rocky Linux 9.5 FIPS with EPEL Packages Setup

• Navigation Menu

• Nice Slurm User Guide

• Numbers In Rpm Change Log

• Nvidia Gtx 1060 Setup On Rocky Linux 9.X

• OpenELA Distributions and Concerns of How Source Code is Taken from Red Hat

• Oracle Db Is Supported On Rocky Linux

• Oracle Linux and Virtualization Hardware Certification Program

• Package Install - Not Recommended

• Ports to Allow Localsend Traffic on in Rocky Linux

• Query If Certain Packages Are Available With Epel

• RESF Moving to Koji for Rocky Linux 9.7 and Onwards

• Regarding Contacting Members of the Rocky Linux Community

• Regarding Dnf And Priority In Repositories

• Regarding Vendors and Support for Rocky Linux and Other Rebuilds

• Regarding Warewulf and Root SSH Keys and Not Needing a Password

• Rhel 8 Performance Tuning Guide Pdf

• Rhel 9.6 Release Coming Out In May 2025

• Rocky 8

• Rocky Linux

• Rocky Linux 10 Is Built In Koji

• Rocky Linux 8.10 Dvd Iso Initrd.Img Contents

• Rocky Linux 8.10 Minimal Iso Initrd.Img Contents

• Rocky Linux 8.5 Setup With Docker Version 20.10.8

• Rocky Linux Documentation Advice from Steven on Code Blocks and Knowledge and Reading Time

• Rocky Linux Release And Version Guide Rocky Linu 1

• Rocky Linux Security Updates And Cve Policy Specif

• Rpm Qi Command

• Run Dnf Distrosync To Ensure Packages Are Consiste

• Sanoid And Syncoid Setup And Installation On Rocky

• Selinux Can Mess With Wifi On Rocky Linux

• Set IRQ Analysis on CentOS Kernel

• Set Up A Rocky Linux 9 Node With Libvirt And A Gui

• Setting Rocky Linux Repositories to use the Vault, in this case the example is Rocky Linux 9.5

• Setting Up A Pxe Server On Rocky Linux 9.X

• Setting Up And Installing K3S On Rocky Linux 9

• Setting Up And Installing Zfs On Rocky Linux 9

• Setting Up Infiniband On Rocky Linux 9.X

• Setting Up Libvirt On Rocky Linux 9

• Setting Up Libvirt On Rocky Linux Documentation

• Setting Up Seafile on Kubernetes on Rocky Linux

• Setting Up Xsos On A Rhel Based System

• Setting Up a Local PXE Server to Boot a Netboot Install of Rocky Linux 10

• Setup Folding@Home With Libvirt On Rocky Linux Usi

• Setup Privategpt On Rocky Linux 9.X

• Show All Instances In Apptainer

• Slurm Setup on Rocky Linux 8.10 with One Controller Node and One Compute Node

• Slurm installation

• Smartcard Authentication Instructions With Red Hat

• Sparky - Getting Started - RESF Rocky Linux

• Start Apptainer As Fake Root

• Steps To Setup Rocky Linux In Wsl

• Steps To Upload A Centos Vhd Into Azure

• Steps for Installing NVIDIA Drivers from RPMFusion on Rocky Linux

• Steps to Build and Boot a Live Linux Image (example is with CentOS Stream)

• Testing - ISO Method - Performed on a Rocky Linux 10 System

• Testing - ISO Method - Performed on a Rocky Linux 10 System

• Testing - Rocky Linux 9.5 Pacemaker Setup

• Testing - Rocky Linux 9.5 Pacemaker Setup

• The Last Released CentOS 7.9 Kernel

• The Resf Controls The Errata For Rocky Linux And N

• The below option will reboot the machine.

• To Allow Ssh Logins When Installing Rocky Linux 9.

• To Enable A Repository In A Rhel Based Distro, Use

• To Get SSH Access to a Rocky Linux 8.10 with XFCE Box:

• To Skip The Various Sosreport Prompts

• Tuesdays Are When Red Hat Usually Releases RHSAs and Other Fixes and Then Rocky Linux Would Pull These In

• Update Dnf To Fix A Particular Cve

• Update Package Database In Rhel Based System

• Updating the CentOS 8.5 repositories

• Upgrade All Packages In Rhel Based System And Refr

• Upgrade Package In Dnf With

• Use Rpm Kv To See Header Information About A Pack

• Use The Sosreport Command On An Un Tarred Director

• Use dnf repoquery to find dependent RPMs

• Useful DNF Command to Exclude Packages from Being Installed

• Useful Examples Of Warewulf And Overlays

• Useful Network Metrics When Checking Sosreports

• Verify The Components Of An Rpm Package Have Been

• Warewulf Installation On Rocky Linux 8 And 9

• Warewulf Overlay Is Single Threaded

• Warewulf Troubleshooting Commands

• What Does the Rocky Linux Storage SIG do?

• What Is Required For Warewulf

• What noarch Means When Included in an RPM’s Name

• What to Do When you Have an Article for Rocky Linux Docs and It Affects All Three Versions of Rocky Linux

• Where Are The Dnf Automatic Timer Files Be Located

• Where Are The Sa Logs In The Sosreport To Check Sa

• Where Check Cron Logs In Rhel Based Distros

• Where Does Apptainer Store Its Tokens

• Where Find Rx Dropped Errors In Sosreports

• Where To Check For Errors With Munge

• Where You Can Find Dmesg Commands In The Sosreport

• Why Rocky 8 Does Not Work On A Vm

• XFS Setup on Rocky Linux

• Yum Commands

• slurmdbd SchedMD Man Page

• wwctl container shell rockylinux-9