How To Install libkdumpfile on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libkdumpfile on Rocky Linux 8. libkdumpfile is Kernel coredump file access

Introduction

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

What is libkdumpfile

libkdumpfile is a library to read kdump-compressed kernel core dumps.

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

Install libkdumpfile 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 libkdumpfile using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libkdumpfile

Install libkdumpfile 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 libkdumpfile using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libkdumpfile

How To Uninstall libkdumpfile on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libkdumpfile

libkdumpfile Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/2047fb1a269165137be1f5e24c74db149e701c
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/227129e420b138c7e51f9cd8422175576892df
/usr/lib64/libaddrxlat.so.1
/usr/lib64/libaddrxlat.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libkdumpfile.so.8
/usr/lib64/libkdumpfile.so.8.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libkdumpfile
/usr/share/doc/libkdumpfile/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libkdumpfile/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libkdumpfile
/usr/share/licenses/libkdumpfile/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libkdumpfile/COPYING.GPLv2
/usr/share/licenses/libkdumpfile/COPYING.GPLv3
/usr/share/licenses/libkdumpfile/COPYING.LGPLv3

References

Summary

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