How to Install and Uninstall libabigail.x86_64 Package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

Last updated: January 19,2025

1. Install "libabigail.x86_64" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libabigail.x86_64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)


    
        
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libabigail.x86_64" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall libabigail.x86_64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8):


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libabigail.x86_64 package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

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Available Packages
Name : libabigail
Version : 2.4
Release : 3.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 1.6 M
Source : libabigail-2.4-3.el8.src.rpm
Repository : epel
Summary : Set of ABI analysis tools
URL : https://sourceware.org/libabigail/
License : Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
Description : The libabigail package comprises seven command line utilities:
: abidiff, kmidiff, abipkgdiff, abicompat, abidw, and abilint.
: The abidiff command line tool compares the ABI of two
: ELF shared libraries and emits meaningful textual reports about
: changes impacting exported functions, variables and their types.
: Simarly, the kmidiff compares the kernel module interface of two Linux
: kernels. abipkgdiff compares the ABIs of ELF binaries contained in
: two packages. abicompat checks if a subsequent version of a shared
: library is still compatible with an application that is linked against
: it. abidw emits an XML representation of the ABI of a given ELF
: shared library. abilint checks that a given XML representation of the
: ABI of a shared library is correct.
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: Install libabigail if you need to compare the ABI of ELF shared
: libraries.