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

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

Introduction

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

What is `crash-trace-command`

Command for reading ftrace data from a dumpfile.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install crash-trace-command

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

sudo yum -y install crash-trace-command

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

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

sudo dnf remove crash-trace-command

crash-trace-command Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/0312a18744e53ecf8d6c99029b9a23868e6963
/usr/lib64/crash/extensions/trace.so
/usr/share/doc/crash-trace-command
/usr/share/doc/crash-trace-command/COPYING

References

crash-trace-command website

Summary

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