How To Install abrt-addon-kerneloops on CentOS 8

abrt-addon-kerneloops is abrt’s kerneloops addon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-addon-kerneloops on CentOS 8.

What is abrt-addon-kerneloops

This package contains plugin for collecting kernel crash information from system log.

We can use yum or dnf to install abrt-addon-kerneloops on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abrt-addon-kerneloops.

Install abrt-addon-kerneloops on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abrt-addon-kerneloops using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abrt-addon-kerneloops

Install abrt-addon-kerneloops on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abrt-addon-kerneloops using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abrt-addon-kerneloops

How To Uninstall abrt-addon-kerneloops on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the abrt-addon-kerneloops package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove abrt-addon-kerneloops

abrt-addon-kerneloops Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/abrt/plugins/oops.conf
/etc/libreport/events.d/koops_event.conf
/etc/libreport/plugins/catalog_koops_format.conf
/usr/bin/abrt-action-analyze-oops
/usr/bin/abrt-dump-journal-oops
/usr/bin/abrt-dump-oops
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/e200b8618b1285a3fc659acd6d91cbdfbf7d68
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/5fce0a731273087846374508da52ce1a3ce902
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/67f2efbcd5fb9576320cf8d3ea3b87b43e7727
/usr/lib/systemd/catalog/abrt_koops.catalog
/usr/lib/systemd/system/abrt-oops.service
/usr/share/abrt/conf.d/plugins/oops.conf
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-action-analyze-oops.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-dump-journal-oops.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-dump-oops.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/abrt-oops.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/koops_event.conf.5.gz
/var/lib/abrt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-addon-kerneloops on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.