[AlmaLinux 9] DNS ONLY installs fail because of no RPM package yum-plugin-universal-hooks available

Symptoms

When installing DNS ONLY on a AlmaLinux 9 server this error is seen:

No match for argument: yum-plugin-universal-hooks
Error: Unable to find a match: yum-plugin-universal-hooks

and the installer ends with

The background process Install [YUM universal hooks] failed with a fatal error: The subprocess reported error number 127 when it ended.

Description

DNS ONLY servers do not have the EA4 repo installed and is where yum-plugin-universal-hooks is obtained, causing the installer to fail. This package will need to be in an available repo to be installed during the DNS ONLY software installation process.

We've opened an internal case for our development team to investigate this further. For reference, the case number is CPANEL-44172. Follow this article to receive an email notification when a solution is published in the product. 

Workaround

On an AlmaLinux 9 server this package can be installed before running the DNS ONLY install script.

yum -y install yum-utils
rpm -ivh http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/cpanelsync/repos/CentOS/9/EA4/x86_64/yum-plugin-universal-hooks-0.1-13.18.19.cpanel.x86_64.rpm