How To Install capstone on CentOS 8

capstone is A lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework

Introduction

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

What is `capstone`

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.

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

Install capstone 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install capstone

Install capstone 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install capstone

How To Uninstall capstone on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove capstone

capstone Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/cstool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/a5c85be7a7c61093311f5f29c91b25779e1bc7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/068588ab65721ac4cf0e3b43e396c1baef7f84
/usr/lib64/libcapstone.so.4
/usr/share/doc/capstone
/usr/share/doc/capstone/CREDITS.TXT
/usr/share/doc/capstone/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/capstone/README.md
/usr/share/doc/capstone/SPONSORS.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/capstone
/usr/share/licenses/capstone/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/capstone/LICENSE_LLVM.TXT

References

capstone website

Summary

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