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

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

Introduction

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

What is crash-ptdump-command

Retrieve and decode the log buffer generated by the Intel(R) Processor Trace facility

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

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

sudo dnf -y install crash-ptdump-command

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

sudo yum -y install crash-ptdump-command

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

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

sudo dnf remove crash-ptdump-command

crash-ptdump-command Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/c7f0e367dc36575ae17bcff68a162453e2c23c
/usr/lib64/crash/extensions/ptdump.so
/usr/share/doc/crash-ptdump-command
/usr/share/doc/crash-ptdump-command/COPYING

References

Summary

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