How To Install dwz on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dwz on Rocky Linux 8.
What is dwz
The dwz package contains a program that attempts to optimize DWARF debugging information contained in ELF shared libraries and ELF executables for size, by replacing DWARF information representation with equivalent smaller representation where possible and by reducing the amount of duplication using techniques from DWARF standard appendix E - creating DW_TAG_partial_unit compilation units (CUs) for duplicated information and using DW_TAG_imported_unit to import it into each CU that needs it.
We can use yum or dnf to install dwz on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dwz.
Install dwz 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 dwz using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dwz
Install dwz 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 dwz using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dwz
How To Uninstall dwz on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the dwz package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dwz
dwz Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/dwz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/f27a88982c8a17df184227e473e9a53a5de643
/usr/share/licenses/dwz
/usr/share/licenses/dwz/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/dwz/COPYING.RUNTIME
/usr/share/licenses/dwz/COPYING3
/usr/share/man/man1/dwz.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dwz on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.