Upgrade CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 inplace

By Anwesha Das in System Administration on

I wanted to upgrade one of my servers from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 [https://www.centos.org/]. The following are the steps I followed : Check the kernel version Before we start the upgrade process, let us see the kernel version. # uname -a Linux centostest 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_…

Solution to `linker` error while building `bat`

By Anwesha Das in System Administration on

I was trying to install bat [https://github.com/sharkdp/bat], from source, the clone of cat command with syntax highlighting and Git integration, in a CentOS [https://www.centos.org/] machine, via cargo, Rust package installer. But it gave me this error: error: linker `cc` not found | = note: No…