How To Install procdump on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install procdump on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install procdump.
Install procdump on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the procdump package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove procdump
procdump Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/procdump
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/25b385f48b90d0ed040fda46b68009e76062b4
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
