How To Install libhugetlbfs-utils on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhugetlbfs-utils on Rocky Linux 8. libhugetlbfs-utils is Userspace utilities for configuring the hugepage environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libhugetlbfs-utils on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libhugetlbfs-utils

This packages contains a number of utilities that will help administrate the use of huge pages on your system. hugeedit modifies binaries to set default segment remapping behavior. hugectl sets environment variables for using huge pages and then execs the target program. hugeadm gives easy access to huge page pool size control. pagesize lists page sizes available on the machine.

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

Install libhugetlbfs-utils 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 libhugetlbfs-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libhugetlbfs-utils

Install libhugetlbfs-utils 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 libhugetlbfs-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libhugetlbfs-utils

How To Uninstall libhugetlbfs-utils on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libhugetlbfs-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libhugetlbfs-utils

libhugetlbfs-utils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/huge_page_setup_helper.py
/usr/bin/hugeadm
/usr/bin/hugectl
/usr/bin/hugeedit
/usr/bin/pagesize
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/739bd744ea8aea95eaa16614a941d5fe88db4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/a07583de38d6c54c4a261a9cd7b63a1f7345ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/62a61e42c7d3ad6f8769e6ad188aee15c1cfbd
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/8d945f60fc9e0de9ed42b3f2cf4dbd3c53344a
/usr/share/man/man1/ld.hugetlbfs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pagesize.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/hugeadm.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/hugectl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/hugeedit.8.gz

References

Summary

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