How To Install gdb-doc on CentOS 8

gdb-doc is Documentation for GDB (the GNU source-level debugger)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gdb-doc on CentOS 8.

What is gdb-doc

GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++, Java, and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion and printing their data. This package provides INFO, HTML and PDF user manual for GDB.

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

Install gdb-doc 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 gdb-doc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gdb-doc

Install gdb-doc 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 gdb-doc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gdb-doc

How To Uninstall gdb-doc on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gdb-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gdb-doc

gdb-doc Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/gdb-doc
/usr/share/doc/gdb-doc/annotate.html
/usr/share/doc/gdb-doc/annotate.pdf
/usr/share/doc/gdb-doc/gdb.html
/usr/share/doc/gdb-doc/gdb.pdf
/usr/share/info/annotate.info.gz
/usr/share/info/gdb.info.gz

References

Summary

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