How To Install debugbreak-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debugbreak-devel on CentOS 8.
What is debugbreak-devel
debugbreak.h allows you to put breakpoints in your C/C++ code with a call to debug_break(). \u2022 Include one header file and insert calls to debug_break() in the code where you wish to break into the debugger. \u2022 Supports GCC, Clang and MSVC. \u2022 Works well on ARM, AArch64, i686, x86-64, POWER and has a fallback code path for other architectures. \u2022 Works like the DebugBreak() function provided by Windows and QNX.
We can use yum or dnf to install debugbreak-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install debugbreak-devel.
Install debugbreak-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 debugbreak-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install debugbreak-devel
Install debugbreak-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 debugbreak-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install debugbreak-devel
How To Uninstall debugbreak-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the debugbreak-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove debugbreak-devel
debugbreak-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/debugbreak.h
/usr/share/debugbreak
/usr/share/debugbreak/debugbreak-gdb.py
/usr/share/doc/debugbreak-devel
/usr/share/doc/debugbreak-devel/HOW-TO-USE-DEBUGBREAK-GDB-PY.md
/usr/share/doc/debugbreak-devel/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/debugbreak-devel
/usr/share/licenses/debugbreak-devel/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debugbreak-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.