How To Install system-config-kdump on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install system-config-kdump on CentOS 7.
What is system-config-kdump
system-config-kdump is a graphical tool for configuring kernel crash dumping via kdump and kexec.
We can use yum or dnf to install system-config-kdump on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install system-config-kdump.
Install system-config-kdump on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install system-config-kdump using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install system-config-kdump
Install system-config-kdump 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 system-config-kdump using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install system-config-kdump
How To Uninstall system-config-kdump on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the system-config-kdump package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove system-config-kdump
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install system-config-kdump on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
