How To Install capstone on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone on Rocky Linux 8. capstone is A lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install capstone.

Install capstone on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install capstone

Install capstone on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install capstone

How To Uninstall capstone on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove capstone

capstone Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/cstool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/a5c85be7a7c61093311f5f29c91b25779e1bc7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/068588ab65721ac4cf0e3b43e396c1baef7f84
/usr/lib64/libcapstone.so.4
/usr/share/doc/capstone
/usr/share/doc/capstone/CREDITS.TXT
/usr/share/doc/capstone/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/capstone/README.md
/usr/share/doc/capstone/SPONSORS.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/capstone
/usr/share/licenses/capstone/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/capstone/LICENSE_LLVM.TXT

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.