How To Install bloaty on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install bloaty on Rocky Linux 8. bloaty is A size profiler for binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bloaty on Rocky Linux 8.

What is bloaty

Ever wondered what’s making your binary big? Bloaty McBloatface will show you a size profile of the binary so you can understand what’s taking up space inside. Bloaty works on binaries, shared objects, object files, and static libraries. Bloaty supports the ELF and Mach-O formats, and has experimental support for WebAssembly.

We can use yum or dnf to install bloaty on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bloaty.

Install bloaty on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bloaty using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bloaty

Install bloaty on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bloaty using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bloaty

How To Uninstall bloaty on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the bloaty package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bloaty

bloaty Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/bloaty
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/1a6471f73c061c9011b824df1ab5702f9675ea
/usr/share/doc/bloaty
/usr/share/doc/bloaty/README.md
/usr/share/doc/bloaty/how-bloaty-works.md
/usr/share/licenses/bloaty
/usr/share/licenses/bloaty/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bloaty on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.