How To Install coccinelle on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install coccinelle on CentOS 7. coccinelle is Semantic patching for Linux (spatch)

Introduction

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

What is coccinelle

Coccinelle is a tool to utilize semantic patches for manipulating C code. It was originally designed to ease maintenance of device drivers in the Linux kernel.

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

Install coccinelle on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install coccinelle

Install coccinelle 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 coccinelle using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install coccinelle

How To Uninstall coccinelle on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove coccinelle

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Summary

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