How To Install crash-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-devel on CentOS 7.
What is crash-devel
The core analysis suite is a self-contained tool that can be used to investigate either live systems, kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump and kdump packages from Red Hat Linux, the mcore kernel patch offered by Mission Critical Linux, or the LKCD kernel patch. The core analysis suite is a self-contained tool that can be used to investigate either live systems, kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump and kdump packages from Red Hat Linux, the mcore kernel patch offered by Mission Critical Linux, or the LKCD kernel patch.
We can use yum or dnf to install crash-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install crash-devel.
Install crash-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 crash-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install crash-devel
Install crash-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 crash-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install crash-devel
How To Uninstall crash-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the crash-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove crash-devel
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
