How To Install gdb-gdbserver.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gdb-gdbserver.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is gdb-gdbserver.x86_64
GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++, Java, and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion and printing their data. This package provides a program that allows you to run GDB on a different machine than the one which is running the program being debugged.
We can use yum to install gdb-gdbserver.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gdb-gdbserver.x86_64.
Install gdb-gdbserver.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 gdb-gdbserver.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gdb-gdbserver.x86_64
How To Uninstall gdb-gdbserver.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the gdb-gdbserver.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove gdb-gdbserver.x86_64
gdb-gdbserver.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/gdbserver
/usr/lib64/libinproctrace.so
/usr/share/man/man1/gdbserver.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gdb-gdbserver.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.