How To Install debugbreak-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install debugbreak-devel on CentOS 7. debugbreak-devel is Break into the debugger programmatically

Introduction

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

What is debugbreak-devel

debugbreak.h allows you to put breakpoints in your C/C++ code with a call to debug_break(). • Include one header file and insert calls to debug_break() in the code where you wish to break into the debugger. • Supports GCC, Clang and MSVC. • Works well on ARM, AArch64, i686, x86-64, POWER and has a fallback code path for other architectures. • Works like the DebugBreak() function provided by Windows and QNX.

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

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

sudo yum -y install debugbreak-devel

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

sudo dnf -y install debugbreak-devel

How To Uninstall debugbreak-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove debugbreak-devel

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Summary

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