Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone-devel on CentOS 8.
What is capstone-devel
Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community. The capstone-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use capstone.
We can use yum or dnf to install capstone-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install capstone-devel.
Install capstone-devel 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 capstone-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install capstone-devel
Install capstone-devel 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 capstone-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install capstone-devel
How To Uninstall capstone-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the capstone-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove capstone-devel
capstone-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/capstone
/usr/include/capstone/arm.h
/usr/include/capstone/arm64.h
/usr/include/capstone/capstone.h
/usr/include/capstone/evm.h
/usr/include/capstone/m680x.h
/usr/include/capstone/m68k.h
/usr/include/capstone/mips.h
/usr/include/capstone/platform.h
/usr/include/capstone/ppc.h
/usr/include/capstone/sparc.h
/usr/include/capstone/systemz.h
/usr/include/capstone/tms320c64x.h
/usr/include/capstone/x86.h
/usr/include/capstone/xcore.h
/usr/lib64/libcapstone.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/capstone.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
