Migrate CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux

Updated on March 2, 2022

Earlier I had written about CentOS 8 error: Failed to download metadata for repo  “AppStream” and followed by converting CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream. Finally, I had suggested migrating CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, or Oracle Linux that provides Long Term Support (LTS). In this tutorial, we shall learn to migrate CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux.

What is Rocky Linux?

Rocky Linux is an open-source operating system compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux® and a replacement for CentOS 8. Rocky Linux Project has provided a shell script that shall help us to migrate CentOS 8 Li