How To Install dwz on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dwz
on Fedora 36.
What is dwz
The dwz package contains a program that attempts to optimize DWARF debugging information contained in ELF shared libraries and ELF executables for size, by replacing DWARF information representation with equivalent smaller representation where possible and by reducing the amount of duplication using techniques from DWARF standard appendix E - creating DW_TAG_partial_unit compilation units (CUs) for duplicated information and using DW_TAG_imported_unit to import it into each CU that needs it.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dwz
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dwz.
Install dwz on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install dwz
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dwz
Install dwz on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install dwz
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dwz
How To Uninstall dwz on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the dwz
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dwz
dwz Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/dwz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/70258917585bae2cbe83a22e23002b53806e6e
/usr/share/licenses/dwz
/usr/share/licenses/dwz/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/dwz/COPYING.RUNTIME
/usr/share/licenses/dwz/COPYING3
/usr/share/man/man1/dwz.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dwz
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).