Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install abi-compliance-checker on CentOS 8.
What is abi-compliance-checker
A tool for checking backward binary compatibility of a shared C/C++ library. It checks for changes in calling stack, changes in v-table, removed symbols, etc.
We can use yum or dnf to install abi-compliance-checker on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abi-compliance-checker.
Install abi-compliance-checker on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install abi-compliance-checker using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install abi-compliance-checker
Install abi-compliance-checker on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install abi-compliance-checker using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install abi-compliance-checker
How To Uninstall abi-compliance-checker on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the abi-compliance-checker package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove abi-compliance-checker
abi-compliance-checker Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/abi-compliance-checker
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/ABIDump.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Basic.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/CallConv.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Descriptor.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/ElfTools.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Filter.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/GccAst.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Input.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Logging.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Mangling.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Path.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/RegTests.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Scripts
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Scripts/Sections.js
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Scripts/Tabs.js
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Styles
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Styles/CmpSystems.css
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Styles/HeadersDiff.css
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Styles/Report.css
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Styles/SymbolsList.css
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Styles/Tabs.css
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/SysCheck.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/SysFiles.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/TUDump.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/TypeAttr.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/Utils.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/Internals/XmlDump.pm
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/RulesBin.xml
/usr/share/abi-compliance-checker/modules/RulesSrc.xml
/usr/share/doc/abi-compliance-checker
/usr/share/doc/abi-compliance-checker/Changelog.html
/usr/share/doc/abi-compliance-checker/README.md
/usr/share/doc/abi-compliance-checker/Xml-Descriptor.html
/usr/share/doc/abi-compliance-checker/index.html
/usr/share/licenses/abi-compliance-checker
/usr/share/licenses/abi-compliance-checker/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install abi-compliance-checker on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
