How To Install libreport-plugin-kerneloops on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreport-plugin-kerneloops on Rocky Linux 8. libreport-plugin-kerneloops is libreport’s kerneloops reporter plugin

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreport-plugin-kerneloops on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libreport-plugin-kerneloops

This package contains plugin which sends kernel crash information to specified server, usually to kerneloops.org.

We can use yum or dnf to install libreport-plugin-kerneloops on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libreport-plugin-kerneloops.

Install libreport-plugin-kerneloops 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 libreport-plugin-kerneloops using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libreport-plugin-kerneloops

Install libreport-plugin-kerneloops 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 libreport-plugin-kerneloops using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libreport-plugin-kerneloops

How To Uninstall libreport-plugin-kerneloops on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libreport-plugin-kerneloops package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libreport-plugin-kerneloops

libreport-plugin-kerneloops Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/reporter-kerneloops
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/5f05631f33880ea030d28d6c5af77ee063f7a5
/usr/share/libreport/events/report_Kerneloops.xml
/usr/share/man/man1/reporter-kerneloops.1.gz
/usr/bin/reporter-kerneloops
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/0c6242f2c0a0316d1b7fbe6d6010227ca0e2ed
/usr/share/libreport/events/report_Kerneloops.xml
/usr/share/man/man1/reporter-kerneloops.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreport-plugin-kerneloops on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.