How To Install crash-devel on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-devel on Rocky Linux 8.
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.
We can use yum or dnf to install crash-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install crash-devel.
Install crash-devel 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 crash-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install crash-devel
Install crash-devel 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 crash-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install crash-devel
How To Uninstall crash-devel on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the crash-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove crash-devel
crash-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/include/crash
/usr/include/crash/defs.h
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crash-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.