How To Install crash-gcore-command on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-gcore-command on CentOS 8.
What is crash-gcore-command
Command for creating a core dump file of a user-space task that was running in a kernel dumpfile.
We can use yum or dnf to install crash-gcore-command on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install crash-gcore-command.
Install crash-gcore-command 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 crash-gcore-command using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install crash-gcore-command
Install crash-gcore-command 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 crash-gcore-command using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install crash-gcore-command
How To Uninstall crash-gcore-command on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the crash-gcore-command package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove crash-gcore-command
crash-gcore-command Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/0c5fba7356d67c12dc348c21a754c9284d0355
/usr/lib64/crash/extensions/gcore.so
/usr/share/doc/crash-gcore-command
/usr/share/doc/crash-gcore-command/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-gcore-command on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.