How To Install capstone on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone on CentOS 7. capstone is A lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone on CentOS 7.

What is capstone

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.

We can use yum or dnf to install capstone on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install capstone.

Install capstone on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install capstone

Install capstone on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install capstone

How To Uninstall capstone on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove capstone

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.