How To Install annobin on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install annobin on CentOS 8.
What is annobin
Provides a plugin for GCC that records extra information in the files that it compiles. Note - the plugin is automatically enabled in gcc builds via flags provided by the redhat-rpm-macros package.
We can use yum or dnf to install annobin on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install annobin.
Install annobin 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 annobin using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install annobin
Install annobin 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 annobin using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install annobin
How To Uninstall annobin on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the annobin package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove annobin
annobin Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/87777ad4d8a068236963e73ec0772f65fd84e7
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/8/plugin
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/8/plugin/annobin.so
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/8/plugin/annobin.so.0
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/8/plugin/annobin.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/annobin-plugin/annotation.proposal.txt
/usr/share/info/annobin.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/annobin
/usr/share/licenses/annobin/COPYING3
/usr/share/licenses/annobin/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/annobin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/built-by.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/check-abi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hardened.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/run-on-binaries-in.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install annobin on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.