How To Install gcc-toolset-9-dwz on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcc-toolset-9-dwz on CentOS 8.
What is gcc-toolset-9-dwz
The dwz package contains a program that attempts to optimize DWARF debugging information contained in ELF shared libraries and ELF executables for size, by replacing DWARF information representation with equivalent smaller representation where possible and by reducing the amount of duplication using techniques from DWARF standard appendix E - creating DW_TAG_partial_unit compilation units (CUs) for duplicated information and using DW_TAG_imported_unit to import it into each CU that needs it.
We can use yum or dnf to install gcc-toolset-9-dwz on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gcc-toolset-9-dwz.
Install gcc-toolset-9-dwz 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 gcc-toolset-9-dwz using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gcc-toolset-9-dwz
Install gcc-toolset-9-dwz 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 gcc-toolset-9-dwz using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gcc-toolset-9-dwz
How To Uninstall gcc-toolset-9-dwz on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gcc-toolset-9-dwz package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gcc-toolset-9-dwz
gcc-toolset-9-dwz Package Contents on CentOS 8
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/bin/dwz
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/share/doc/gcc-toolset-9-dwz
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/share/doc/gcc-toolset-9-dwz/COPYING
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/share/doc/gcc-toolset-9-dwz/COPYING.RUNTIME
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/share/doc/gcc-toolset-9-dwz/COPYING3
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/share/man/man1/dwz.1.gz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/b3f3d4364ab9f428c8ae33b37d1565adcb0148
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gcc-toolset-9-dwz on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.