How To Install crash-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-devel on Rocky Linux 8. crash-devel is kernel crash analysis utility for live systems, netdump, diskdump, kdump, LKCD or mcore dumpfiles

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is crash-devel

The core analysis suite is a self-contained tool that can be used to investigate either live systems, kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump and kdump packages from Red Hat Linux, the mcore kernel patch offered by Mission Critical Linux, or the LKCD kernel patch.

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

Install crash-devel 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 crash-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install crash-devel

Install crash-devel 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 crash-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install crash-devel

How To Uninstall crash-devel on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the crash-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove crash-devel

crash-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/crash
/usr/include/crash/defs.h

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.