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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install elfutils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install elfutils
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install elfutils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install elfutils
How To Uninstall elfutils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the elfutils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove elfutils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elfutils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
