How To Install annobin-annocheck on CentOS 8

annobin-annocheck is A tool for checking the security hardening status of binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install annobin-annocheck on CentOS 8.

What is annobin-annocheck

Installs the annocheck program which uses the notes generated by annobin to check that the specified files were compiled with the correct security hardening options.

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

Install annobin-annocheck 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-annocheck using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install annobin-annocheck

Install annobin-annocheck 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-annocheck using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install annobin-annocheck

How To Uninstall annobin-annocheck on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the annobin-annocheck package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove annobin-annocheck

annobin-annocheck Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/annocheck
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/4e706efe624a7a20d90de34d3f7fe1ef4ec93c
/usr/share/man/man1/annocheck.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install annobin-annocheck on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.