How To Install abrt-addon-pstoreoops on CentOS 8

abrt-addon-pstoreoops is abrt’s pstore oops addon

Introduction

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

What is abrt-addon-pstoreoops

This package contains plugin for collecting kernel oopses from pstore storage.

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

Install abrt-addon-pstoreoops 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-pstoreoops using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abrt-addon-pstoreoops

Install abrt-addon-pstoreoops 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-pstoreoops using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abrt-addon-pstoreoops

How To Uninstall abrt-addon-pstoreoops on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove abrt-addon-pstoreoops

abrt-addon-pstoreoops Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/abrt-merge-pstoreoops
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/0538d11d51d20adfdc849a183aad9f54f62a2f
/usr/lib/systemd/system/abrt-pstoreoops.service
/usr/sbin/abrt-harvest-pstoreoops
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-harvest-pstoreoops.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-merge-pstoreoops.1.gz

References

Summary

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