How To Install msr-tools on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install msr-tools on Rocky Linux 8. msr-tools is Collection of tools for reading/writing CPU model specific registers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install msr-tools on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install msr-tools.

Install msr-tools 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 msr-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install msr-tools

Install msr-tools 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 msr-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install msr-tools

How To Uninstall msr-tools on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the msr-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove msr-tools

msr-tools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/0ae80cc2ccf1655c5a86293c5c334159e631c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/b3465ab6779a7421db35839bfb0d9922a823b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/f070fe4976ef43fda675d83ac1255d4618cb51
/usr/sbin/msr-cpuid
/usr/sbin/rdmsr
/usr/sbin/wrmsr

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install msr-tools on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.