How To Install umr on CentOS 8

umr is AMDGPU Userspace Register Debugger

Introduction

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

What is umr

AMDGPU Userspace Register Debugger (UMR) is a tool to read and display, as well as write to AMDGPU device MMIO, PCIE, SMC, and DIDT registers via userspace.

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

Install umr 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 umr using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install umr

Install umr 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 umr using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install umr

How To Uninstall umr on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove umr

umr Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/umr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/5cabe19bfad75e206593fea4b7075e54c81f65
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/umr
/usr/share/doc/umr
/usr/share/doc/umr/README
/usr/share/licenses/umr
/usr/share/licenses/umr/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/umr.1.gz

References

Summary

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