How To Install libdwarf on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdwarf on Rocky Linux 8. libdwarf is Library to access the DWARF Debugging file format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdwarf on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libdwarf

Library to access the DWARF debugging file format which supports source level debugging of a number of procedural languages, such as C, C++, and Fortran. Please see http

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

Install libdwarf 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 libdwarf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libdwarf

Install libdwarf 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 libdwarf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libdwarf

How To Uninstall libdwarf on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libdwarf package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libdwarf

libdwarf Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/897d6d9a85bd43552264137309c6db334f2401
/usr/lib/libdwarf.so.1
/usr/lib/libdwarf.so.1.20180129.0
/usr/share/doc/libdwarf
/usr/share/doc/libdwarf/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libdwarf/README
/usr/share/licenses/libdwarf
/usr/share/licenses/libdwarf/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libdwarf/LGPL.txt
/usr/share/licenses/libdwarf/LIBDWARFCOPYRIGHT
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/d96fe50fcbdb2614fd7c14b2175828cdf1c098
/usr/lib64/libdwarf.so.1
/usr/lib64/libdwarf.so.1.20180129.0
/usr/share/doc/libdwarf
/usr/share/doc/libdwarf/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libdwarf/README
/usr/share/licenses/libdwarf
/usr/share/licenses/libdwarf/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libdwarf/LGPL.txt
/usr/share/licenses/libdwarf/LIBDWARFCOPYRIGHT

References

Summary

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