Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install brltty-dracut on CentOS 8.
What is brltty-dracut
This package provides brltty module for Dracut.
We can use yum or dnf to install brltty-dracut on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install brltty-dracut.
Install brltty-dracut on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install brltty-dracut using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install brltty-dracut
Install brltty-dracut on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install brltty-dracut using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install brltty-dracut
How To Uninstall brltty-dracut on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the brltty-dracut package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove brltty-dracut
brltty-dracut Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/brltty/Initramfs
/etc/brltty/Initramfs/cmdline
/etc/brltty/Initramfs/dracut.conf
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99brltty
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99brltty/README
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99brltty/alsa-start.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99brltty/bluetooth-start.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99brltty/brltty-start.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99brltty/brltty-stop.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99brltty/dbus-start.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99brltty/module-setup.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99brltty/pulse-start.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99brltty/pulse-stop.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99brltty/speechd-start.sh
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install brltty-dracut on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
