How To Install spectre-meltdown-checker on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectre-meltdown-checker on Rocky Linux 8.
What is spectre-meltdown-checker
Spectre & Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux.
We can use yum or dnf to install spectre-meltdown-checker on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spectre-meltdown-checker.
Install spectre-meltdown-checker 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 spectre-meltdown-checker using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spectre-meltdown-checker
Install spectre-meltdown-checker 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 spectre-meltdown-checker using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spectre-meltdown-checker
How To Uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the spectre-meltdown-checker package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spectre-meltdown-checker
spectre-meltdown-checker Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/spectre-meltdown-checker
/usr/share/doc/spectre-meltdown-checker
/usr/share/doc/spectre-meltdown-checker/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/spectre-meltdown-checker.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectre-meltdown-checker on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
