How To Install crash-gcore-command on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-gcore-command on Rocky Linux 8. crash-gcore-command is Gcore extension module for the crash utility

Introduction

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

What is crash-gcore-command

Command for creating a core dump file of a user-space task that was running in a kernel dumpfile.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install crash-gcore-command

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

sudo yum -y install crash-gcore-command

How To Uninstall crash-gcore-command on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove crash-gcore-command

crash-gcore-command Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/94e917c24f29b475a90d76b69abc3121e3e2b7
/usr/lib64/crash/extensions/gcore.so
/usr/share/doc/crash-gcore-command
/usr/share/doc/crash-gcore-command/COPYING

References

Summary

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