How To Install elfutils on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elfutils
on CentOS 7.
What is elfutils
Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including stack (to show backtraces), nm (for listing symbols from object files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strip (for discarding symbols), readelf (to see the raw ELF file structures), elflint (to check for well-formed ELF files) and elfcompress (to compress or decompress ELF sections).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install elfutils
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install elfutils.
Install elfutils on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install elfutils
using yum
by running the following command:
Install elfutils 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.
After updating yum database, We can install elfutils
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall elfutils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the elfutils
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elfutils
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.