How To Install capstone.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. capstone.x86_64 is A lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `capstone.x86_64`

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.

We can use yum to install capstone.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install capstone.x86_64.

Install capstone.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install capstone.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install capstone.x86_64

How To Uninstall capstone.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the capstone.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove capstone.x86_64

capstone.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/cstool
/usr/lib64/libcapstone.so.3
/usr/share/doc/capstone-3.0.5
/usr/share/doc/capstone-3.0.5/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/capstone-3.0.5/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/doc/capstone-3.0.5/LICENSE_LLVM.TXT
/usr/share/doc/capstone-3.0.5/README

References

capstone.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.