Installation¶
There are several options for installing drgn.
Dependencies¶
drgn depends on:
It optionally depends on:
libkdumpfile for makedumpfile compressed kernel core dump format support
The build requires:
Running tests requires:
check 0.10.0 or newer
Building from the Git repository (rather than a release tarball) additionally requires:
Installation¶
Package Manager¶
drgn can be installed using the package manager on some Linux distributions.
Fedora >= 32
$ sudo dnf install drgn
RHEL/CentOS >= 8
Enable EPEL. Then:
$ sudo dnf install drgn
Arch Linux
Debian >= 12 (Bookworm)
$ sudo apt install python3-drgn
Gentoo
$ sudo emerge dev-debug/drgn
openSUSE
$ sudo zypper install python3-drgn
Ubuntu
Enable the michel-slm/kernel-utils PPA. Then:
$ sudo apt install python3-drgn
pip¶
If your Linux distribution doesn’t package the latest release of drgn, you can install it with pip.
First, install pip. Then, run:
$ sudo pip3 install drgn
This will install a binary wheel by default. If you get a build error, then pip wasn’t able to use the binary wheel. Install the dependencies listed below and try again.
Note that RHEL/CentOS 6, Debian Stretch, Ubuntu Trusty, and Ubuntu Xenial (and older) ship Python versions which are too old. Python 3.6 or newer must be installed.
From Source¶
To get the development version of drgn, you will need to build it from source. First, install dependencies:
Fedora
$ sudo dnf install autoconf automake check-devel elfutils-devel gcc git libkdumpfile-devel libtool make pkgconf python3 python3-devel python3-pip python3-setuptools
RHEL/CentOS
$ sudo dnf install autoconf automake check-devel elfutils-devel gcc git libtool make pkgconf python3 python3-devel python3-pip python3-setuptools
Optionally, install
libkdumpfile-devel
from EPEL on RHEL/CentOS >= 8 or install libkdumpfile from source if you want support for the makedumpfile format.Replace
dnf
withyum
for RHEL/CentOS < 8.Debian/Ubuntu
$ sudo apt install autoconf automake check gcc git liblzma-dev libelf-dev libdw-dev libtool make pkgconf python3 python3-dev python3-pip python3-setuptools zlib1g-dev
Optionally, install libkdumpfile from source if you want support for the makedumpfile format.
Arch Linux
$ sudo pacman -S --needed autoconf automake check gcc git libelf libtool make pkgconf python python-pip python-setuptools
Optionally, install libkdumpfile from the AUR or from source if you want support for the makedumpfile format.
Gentoo
$ sudo emerge --noreplace --oneshot dev-build/autoconf dev-build/automake dev-libs/check dev-libs/elfutils sys-devel/gcc dev-vcs/git dev-libs/libkdumpfile dev-build/libtool dev-build/make dev-python/pip virtual/pkgconfig dev-lang/python dev-python/setuptools
openSUSE
$ sudo zypper install autoconf automake check-devel gcc git libdw-devel libelf-devel libkdumpfile-devel libtool make pkgconf python3 python3-devel python3-pip python3-setuptools
Then, run:
$ git clone https://github.com/osandov/drgn.git
$ cd drgn
$ python3 setup.py build
$ sudo python3 setup.py install
Virtual Environment¶
The above options all install drgn globally. You can also install drgn in a virtual environment, either with pip:
$ python3 -m venv drgnenv
$ source drgnenv/bin/activate
(drgnenv) $ pip3 install drgn
(drgnenv) $ drgn --help
Or from source:
$ python3 -m venv drgnenv
$ source drgnenv/bin/activate
(drgnenv) $ python3 setup.py install
(drgnenv) $ drgn --help
Running Locally¶
If you build drgn from source, you can also run it without installing it:
$ python3 setup.py build_ext -i
$ python3 -m drgn --help