How To Install abrt-addon-vmcore on CentOS 8

abrt-addon-vmcore is abrt’s vmcore addon

Introduction

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

What is abrt-addon-vmcore

This package contains plugin for collecting kernel crash information from vmcore files.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install abrt-addon-vmcore

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

sudo yum -y install abrt-addon-vmcore

How To Uninstall abrt-addon-vmcore on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove abrt-addon-vmcore

abrt-addon-vmcore Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/abrt/plugins/vmcore.conf
/etc/libreport/events.d/vmcore_event.conf
/etc/libreport/plugins/catalog_vmcore_format.conf
/usr/bin/abrt-action-analyze-vmcore
/usr/bin/abrt-action-check-oops-for-alt-component
/usr/bin/abrt-action-check-oops-for-hw-error
/usr/lib/systemd/catalog/abrt_vmcore.catalog
/usr/lib/systemd/system/abrt-vmcore.service
/usr/sbin/abrt-harvest-vmcore
/usr/share/abrt/conf.d/plugins/vmcore.conf
/usr/share/libreport/events/analyze_VMcore.xml
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-action-analyze-vmcore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-action-check-oops-for-hw-error.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-harvest-vmcore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/abrt-vmcore.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/vmcore_event.conf.5.gz

References

Summary

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