How To Install capstone-devel on CentOS 8

capstone-devel is Development files for capstone

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone-devel on CentOS 8.

What is capstone-devel

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community. The capstone-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use capstone.

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

Install capstone-devel 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 capstone-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install capstone-devel

Install capstone-devel 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 capstone-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install capstone-devel

How To Uninstall capstone-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the capstone-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove capstone-devel

capstone-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/capstone
/usr/include/capstone/arm.h
/usr/include/capstone/arm64.h
/usr/include/capstone/capstone.h
/usr/include/capstone/evm.h
/usr/include/capstone/m680x.h
/usr/include/capstone/m68k.h
/usr/include/capstone/mips.h
/usr/include/capstone/platform.h
/usr/include/capstone/ppc.h
/usr/include/capstone/sparc.h
/usr/include/capstone/systemz.h
/usr/include/capstone/tms320c64x.h
/usr/include/capstone/x86.h
/usr/include/capstone/xcore.h
/usr/lib64/libcapstone.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/capstone.pc

References

Summary

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