How To Install procdump on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install procdump on CentOS 8. procdump is Sysinternals process dump utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install procdump on CentOS 8.

What is procdump

ProcDump is a command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for various resources and generating crash dumps during a spike that an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause of the issue. ProcDump also serves as a general process dump utility that you can embed in other scripts.

We can use yum or dnf to install procdump on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install procdump.

Install procdump on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install procdump using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install procdump

Install procdump on CentOS 8 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 procdump using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install procdump

How To Uninstall procdump on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the procdump package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove procdump

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install procdump on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.