How To Install procdump on CentOS 8

procdump is Sysinternals process dump utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install procdump on CentOS 8.

What is procdump

ProcDump is a command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for various resources and generating crash dumps during a spike that an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause of the issue. ProcDump also serves as a general process dump utility that you can embed in other scripts.

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

Install procdump 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 procdump using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install procdump

Install procdump 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 procdump using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install procdump

How To Uninstall procdump on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the procdump package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove procdump

procdump Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/procdump
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/fd46eb2de17c1835e2a01e4281ecbad85f8707
/usr/share/doc/procdump
/usr/share/doc/procdump/README.md
/usr/share/doc/procdump/procdump.gif
/usr/share/licenses/procdump
/usr/share/licenses/procdump/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/procdump.1.gz

References

Summary

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