How To Install spectre-meltdown-checker on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectre-meltdown-checker on CentOS 8.
What is spectre-meltdown-checker
Spectre & Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux.
We can use yum or dnf to install spectre-meltdown-checker on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spectre-meltdown-checker.
Install spectre-meltdown-checker 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 spectre-meltdown-checker using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spectre-meltdown-checker
Install spectre-meltdown-checker 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 spectre-meltdown-checker using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spectre-meltdown-checker
How To Uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the spectre-meltdown-checker package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spectre-meltdown-checker
spectre-meltdown-checker Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/spectre-meltdown-checker
/usr/share/doc/spectre-meltdown-checker
/usr/share/doc/spectre-meltdown-checker/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/spectre-meltdown-checker.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectre-meltdown-checker on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.