How To Install abrt-dbus on CentOS 8

abrt-dbus is ABRT DBus service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-dbus on CentOS 8.

What is abrt-dbus

ABRT DBus service which provides org.freedesktop.problems API on dbus and uses PolicyKit to authorize to access the problem data.

We can use yum or dnf to install abrt-dbus on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abrt-dbus.

Install abrt-dbus 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 abrt-dbus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abrt-dbus

Install abrt-dbus 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 abrt-dbus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abrt-dbus

How To Uninstall abrt-dbus on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the abrt-dbus package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove abrt-dbus

abrt-dbus Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/dbus-abrt.conf
/etc/libreport/events.d/abrt_dbus_event.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/a8d8ab69455af988cd7782ddcc4a0a1ed97df2
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/fca12dda14ce4358f23edf27d0179457e35cd8
/usr/sbin/abrt-configuration
/usr/sbin/abrt-dbus
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.redhat.problems.configuration.abrt.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.redhat.problems.configuration.ccpp.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.redhat.problems.configuration.oops.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.redhat.problems.configuration.python3.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.redhat.problems.configuration.vmcore.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.redhat.problems.configuration.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.redhat.problems.configuration.xorg.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Problems2.Entry.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Problems2.Session.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Problems2.Task.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Problems2.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/com.redhat.problems.configuration.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.problems.service
/usr/share/doc/abrt-dbus
/usr/share/doc/abrt-dbus/html
/usr/share/doc/abrt-dbus/html/ch01.html
/usr/share/doc/abrt-dbus/html/ch02.html
/usr/share/doc/abrt-dbus/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/abrt-dbus/html/pt01.html
/usr/share/doc/abrt-dbus/html/re01.html
/usr/share/doc/abrt-dbus/html/style.css
/usr/share/man/man8/abrt-configuration.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/abrt-dbus.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/abrt_polkit.policy

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-dbus on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.