How To Install debugedit on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install debugedit in Fedora 36. debugedit is Tools for debuginfo creation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install debugedit on Fedora 36.

What is debugedit

The debugedit project provides programs and scripts for creating debuginfo and source file distributions, collect build-ids and rewrite source paths in DWARF data for debugging, tracing and profiling. It is based on code originally from the rpm project plus libiberty and binutils. It depends on the elfutils libelf and libdw libraries to read and write ELF files, DWARF data and build-ids.

We can use yum or dnf to install debugedit on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install debugedit.

Install debugedit on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install debugedit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install debugedit

Install debugedit on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install debugedit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install debugedit

How To Uninstall debugedit on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove debugedit

debugedit Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/debugedit
/usr/bin/find-debuginfo
/usr/bin/find-debuginfo.sh
/usr/bin/sepdebugcrcfix
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/af0b451890e62a1e8023663aaca55296736805
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/fa7f9d15dba4d76ed6afa51e510e4057aacbda
/usr/share/doc/debugedit
/usr/share/doc/debugedit/README
/usr/share/licenses/debugedit
/usr/share/licenses/debugedit/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/debugedit/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/debugedit/COPYING3
/usr/share/man/man1/debugedit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/find-debuginfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sepdebugcrcfix.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install debugedit on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).