How To Install spectre-meltdown-checker on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectre-meltdown-checker on CentOS 7.
What is spectre-meltdown-checker
Spectre & Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux.
We can use yum or dnf to install spectre-meltdown-checker on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spectre-meltdown-checker.
Install spectre-meltdown-checker on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install spectre-meltdown-checker using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spectre-meltdown-checker
Install spectre-meltdown-checker 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 spectre-meltdown-checker using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spectre-meltdown-checker
How To Uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the spectre-meltdown-checker package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spectre-meltdown-checker
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectre-meltdown-checker on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.