How To Install kernel-doc on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kernel-doc
on CentOS 7.
What is kernel-doc
This package contains documentation files from the kernel source. Various bits of information about the Linux kernel and the device drivers shipped with it are documented in these files. You’ll want to install this package if you need a reference to the options that can be passed to Linux kernel modules at load time.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install kernel-doc
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kernel-doc.
Install kernel-doc on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install kernel-doc
using yum
by running the following command:
Install kernel-doc 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 kernel-doc
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall kernel-doc on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the kernel-doc
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kernel-doc
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.