Install/Uninstall KernelCare with ease with Bobcares by your side. 

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Let’s take a look at how our Support Team recently helped a customer with installing & uninstalling KernelCare

How to Install/Uninstall KernelCare

KernelCare is a service that offers timely kernel security updates to the running kernel. Furthermore, it removes the need to restart the server after each update. Let’s take a look at some of the other benefits it offers:

• Maximum security:
  It checks for new security updates every 4 hours. These patches help create a safe Linux environment.
• Highest Possible Server Uptime:
  It eliminates maintenance windows as well as downtime due to kernel security updates.
• Works on different servers & environments:
  KernelCare is compatible with the 64bit versions of popular Linux distributions. For instance, RHEL CentOS 5.x,6.x, 7.x, Debian 6.x, 7.x, Virtuozzo/PCS/OpenVZ 2.6.32,CloudLinux 5.x, 6.x, as well as Ubuntu 14.04 kernels.

  Moreover, it offers custom kernel patching for enterprises.

Today, we are going to take a look at how to install/uninstall KernelCare.

Installing KernelCare

We can install KernelCare on RPM-based systems with the following command:

rpm -i https://downloads.kernelcare.com/kernelcare-latest.x86_64.rpm

If we want to install it on a Debian system, we have to execute this command:

wget https://downloads.kernelcare.com/kernelcare-latest.deb
dpkg -i kernelcare-latest.deb

Furthermore, the following command helps check for applied new patches:

/usr/bin/kcarectl –info

According to our Support Techs, KernelCare automatically checks for new patches every 4 hours. However, we can also opt to run an update manually with this command:

/usr/bin/kcarectl –update

How to uninstall KernelCare

According to our Support Team, we can uninstall KernelCare by running the following command with root privileges:

yum remove kernelcare

Furthermore, we can also disable KernelCare automatic updates by editing the /etc/sysconfig/kcare/kcare.conf file. We have to set the AUTO_UPDATE parameter to FALSE.

If you are looking for a way to check the current version of KernelCare, running the following command will get the job done:

/usr/bin/kcarectl –uname

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Conclusion

In brief, the skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares demonstrated how to install/uninstall KernelCare with ease.