How To Install rasdaemon on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rasdaemon on AlmaLinux 8.
What is rasdaemon
rasdaemon is a RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) logging tool. It currently records memory errors, using the EDAC tracing events. EDAC is drivers in the Linux kernel that handle detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets on i386 and x86_64 architectures. EDAC drivers for other architectures like arm also exists. This userspace component consists of an init script which makes sure EDAC drivers and DIMM labels are loaded at system startup, as well as an utility for reporting current error counts from the EDAC sysfs files.
We can use yum or dnf to install rasdaemon on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rasdaemon.
Install rasdaemon on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install rasdaemon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rasdaemon
Install rasdaemon on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install rasdaemon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rasdaemon
How To Uninstall rasdaemon on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the rasdaemon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rasdaemon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rasdaemon on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
