How To Install abrt-addon-xorg on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-addon-xorg on Rocky Linux 8. abrt-addon-xorg is abrt’s Xorg addon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-addon-xorg on Rocky Linux 8.

What is abrt-addon-xorg

This package contains plugin for collecting Xorg crash information from Xorg log.

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

Install abrt-addon-xorg on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install abrt-addon-xorg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abrt-addon-xorg

Install abrt-addon-xorg on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install abrt-addon-xorg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abrt-addon-xorg

How To Uninstall abrt-addon-xorg on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove abrt-addon-xorg

abrt-addon-xorg Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/libreport/events.d/xorg_event.conf
/etc/libreport/plugins/catalog_xorg_format.conf
/usr/bin/abrt-dump-journal-xorg
/usr/bin/abrt-dump-xorg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/b8a2ab06bbd927bbff9f3e21551391a7552920
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/8142a0bfc83a1b5ddabe685fd4c0d42e82af89
/usr/lib/systemd/catalog/abrt_xorg.catalog
/usr/lib/systemd/system/abrt-xorg.service
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-dump-journal-xorg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-dump-xorg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/xorg_event.conf.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-addon-xorg on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.