How To Install kpatch on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kpatch on CentOS 7.
What is kpatch
kpatch is a live kernel patch module manager. It allows the user to manage a collection of binary kernel patch modules which can be used to dynamically patch the kernel without rebooting.
We can use yum or dnf to install kpatch on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kpatch.
Install kpatch on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install kpatch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kpatch
Install kpatch 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 kpatch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kpatch
How To Uninstall kpatch on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the kpatch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kpatch
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kpatch on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
