How To Install procdump on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install procdump on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install procdump.

Install procdump 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 procdump using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install procdump

Install procdump 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 procdump using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install procdump

How To Uninstall procdump on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove procdump

procdump Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/procdump
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/fd46eb2de17c1835e2a01e4281ecbad85f8707
/usr/share/doc/procdump
/usr/share/doc/procdump/README.md
/usr/share/doc/procdump/procdump.gif
/usr/share/licenses/procdump
/usr/share/licenses/procdump/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/procdump.1.gz

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Summary

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