How To Install msr-tools on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install msr-tools on CentOS 7.
What is msr-tools
This is a small collection of tools to allow reading and writing of CPU model specific registers
We can use yum or dnf to install msr-tools on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install msr-tools.
Install msr-tools on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install msr-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install msr-tools
Install msr-tools 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 msr-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install msr-tools
How To Uninstall msr-tools on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the msr-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove msr-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install msr-tools on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
