Information about the package, crash, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The crash package is designed for, Kernel crash and live system analysis utility.
Package Name:
crash
Summary:
Kernel crash and live system analysis utility
Description:
The core analysis suite is a self-contained tool that can be used to investigate either live systems, kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump and kdump packages from Red Hat Linux, the mcore kernel patch offered by Mission Critical Linux, or the LKCD kernel patch.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
7.1.0
Release:
6.el6
Size:
2.5 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3
Control the crash package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install crash
This command will install crash on the server.
yum remove crash
This command will un-install crash on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove crash, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove crash
This command will un-install crash on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove crash when using the -y flag.
yum update crash
This command will update crash to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove crash, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update crash
This command will update crash to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove crash when using the -y flag.
yum info crash
This command will show you core information about the crash package.
yum deplist crash
This command will show you the dependencies for crash. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update crash
This command will check if there is an update waiting on crash. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.