How To Install strace on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strace
on CentOS 7.
What is strace
The strace program intercepts and records the system calls called and received by a running process. Strace can print a record of each system call, its arguments and its return value. Strace is useful for diagnosing problems and debugging, as well as for instructional purposes. Install strace if you need a tool to track the system calls made and received by a process.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install strace
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install strace.
Install strace on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install strace
using yum
by running the following command:
Install strace 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.
After updating yum database, We can install strace
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall strace on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the strace
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strace
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.