Information about the package, abi-dumper, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The abi-dumper package is designed for, Tool to dump ABI of an ELF object containing DWARF debug info.
Package Name:
abi-dumper
Summary:
Tool to dump ABI of an ELF object containing DWARF debug info
Description:
A tool to dump ABI of an ELF object containing DWARF debug info. The tool is intended to be used with ABI Compliance Checker tool for tracking ABI changes of a C/C++ library or kernel module.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.1
Release:
1.el6
Size:
42 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the abi-dumper package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install abi-dumper
This command will install abi-dumper on the server.
yum remove abi-dumper
This command will un-install abi-dumper on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove abi-dumper, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove abi-dumper
This command will un-install abi-dumper 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 abi-dumper when using the -y flag.
yum update abi-dumper
This command will update abi-dumper to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove abi-dumper, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update abi-dumper
This command will update abi-dumper 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 abi-dumper when using the -y flag.
yum info abi-dumper
This command will show you core information about the abi-dumper package.
yum deplist abi-dumper
This command will show you the dependencies for abi-dumper. 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 abi-dumper
This command will check if there is an update waiting on abi-dumper. 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.