Upgrade CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 inplace

I wanted to upgrade one of my servers from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8. 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_64 #1 SMP Tue…

Solution to `linker` error while building `bat`

I was trying to install bat, from source, the clone of cat command with syntax highlighting and Git integration, in a CentOS machine, via cargo, Rust package installer. But it gave me this error: error: linker `cc` not found | = note: No such file or directory (os error 2) error: aborting…