Packages for the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

Available packages for GnuCOBOL-3.2

There are two packages for each system. The first is for the GnuCOBOL compiler. The second is for the CBL-GDB debugging extensions to that compiler.

Red Hat 8 / Centos8

Built and packaged on a 64-bit Centos8 system, these packages are known to install properly on Red Hat 8. The CBL-GDB extensions utilize Python3, which is standard in an RHEL8/Centos8 installation.

• GnuCOBOL 3.2 COBOLworx Package for RHEL8/Centos8
• GnuCOBOL Debugging Extensions for RHEL8/Centos8

Installation

The packages can be downloaded to your system and installed from the downloaded file with sudo yum install *filename*.

Usage

The GnuCOBOL User’s Guide explains the normal use of cobc and the libraries.

The COBOLworx walkthrough of the debugging package explains the use of the CBL-GDB debugging extensions.