Linux Guide 📓

Rocky

Last updated: 2024, Mon May 27th at 21:47 CDT

Rocky is more suitable for daily use as a server but can be used as a desktop. Offering 2 minor releases per year, each one EoL the previous minor release, over 5 years. Then an additional 5 years of security updates, for a total of 10 years of support.

Official Site

General Information

  • Dnf package manager
  • This is an Enterprise Linux
  • RPM packages
  • Copr a community-driven repository

Additional Setup - Enable Copr #

EPEL from copr requires that the CRB or PowerTools repository is enabled on your system, as some EPEL packages depend on packages from that repo.

  • Rocky 8: dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools
  • Rocky 9+: dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
Versions