How To Install libvmmalloc on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvmmalloc
on Fedora 34.
What is libvmmalloc
The libvmmalloc library transparently converts all the dynamic memory allocations into persistent memory allocations. This allows the use of persistent memory as volatile memory without modifying the target application. The typical usage of libvmmalloc is to load it via the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libvmmalloc
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvmmalloc.
Install libvmmalloc on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install libvmmalloc
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libvmmalloc
Install libvmmalloc on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install libvmmalloc
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libvmmalloc
How To Uninstall libvmmalloc on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the libvmmalloc
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libvmmalloc
libvmmalloc Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/585a77d13d7b8a5a73dc9088fdde4a6c428c3a
/usr/lib64/libvmmalloc.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvmmalloc.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libvmmalloc
/usr/share/doc/libvmmalloc/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvmmalloc/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libvmmalloc
/usr/share/licenses/libvmmalloc/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvmmalloc
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.