How To Install capstone-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is capstone-devel

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community. The capstone-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use capstone.

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

Install capstone-devel 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-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install capstone-devel

Install capstone-devel 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-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install capstone-devel

How To Uninstall capstone-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove capstone-devel

References

• capstone-devel website

Summary

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