How To Install crash-ptdump-command on CentOS 8

crash-ptdump-command is ptdump extension module for the crash utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-ptdump-command on CentOS 8.

What is crash-ptdump-command

Retrieve and decode the log buffer generated by the Intel(R) Processor Trace facility

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

Install crash-ptdump-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-ptdump-command using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install crash-ptdump-command

Install crash-ptdump-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-ptdump-command using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install crash-ptdump-command

How To Uninstall crash-ptdump-command on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the crash-ptdump-command package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove crash-ptdump-command

crash-ptdump-command Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/d45aa89c0a6f468a1d3a3452f96093d1106c0b
/usr/lib64/crash/extensions/ptdump.so
/usr/share/doc/crash-ptdump-command
/usr/share/doc/crash-ptdump-command/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-ptdump-command on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.