Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone on CentOS 8.
What is capstone
Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.
We can use yum or dnf to install capstone on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install capstone.
Install capstone 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 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install capstone
Install capstone 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 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install capstone
How To Uninstall capstone on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the capstone package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove capstone
capstone Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/cstool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/a5c85be7a7c61093311f5f29c91b25779e1bc7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/068588ab65721ac4cf0e3b43e396c1baef7f84
/usr/lib64/libcapstone.so.4
/usr/share/doc/capstone
/usr/share/doc/capstone/CREDITS.TXT
/usr/share/doc/capstone/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/capstone/README.md
/usr/share/doc/capstone/SPONSORS.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/capstone
/usr/share/licenses/capstone/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/capstone/LICENSE_LLVM.TXT
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
