How To Install lldb-server-6.0 on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install lldb-6.0

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install lldb-6.0

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is lldb-server-6.0 and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install lldb-server-6.0 on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install lldb-server-6.0 on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install lldb-server-6.0 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lldb-6.0

Install lldb-server-6.0 on CentOS 8 using yum

Because lldb-server-6.0 is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install lldb-server-6.0 package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lldb-6.0

How to upgrade (update) a single package lldb-server-6.0 using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like lldb-server-6.0 in this example you should use the following command:

yum update lldb-6.0

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade lldb-6.0

How to Upgrade lldb-server-6.0 on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update lldb-6.0

How To remove lldb-server-6.0 from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the lldb-server-6.0 package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove lldb-6.0

Extra info and code examples

LLDB is a next generation, high-performance debugger. It is built as a set of reusable components which highly leverage existing libraries in the larger LLVM Project, such as the Clang expression parser and LLVM disassembler.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install lldb-server-6.0 using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the lldb-server-6.0 from CentOS 8.

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