How To Install libpmemlog-debug on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmemlog-debug on Rocky Linux 8. libpmemlog-debug is Debug variant of the Persistent Memory Resident Log File library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmemlog-debug on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libpmemlog-debug

The libpmemlog library provides a pmem-resident log file. This library is provided for cases requiring an append-mostly file to record variable length entries. Most developers will find higher level libraries like libpmemobj to be more generally useful. This sub-package contains debug variant of the library, providing run-time assertions and trace points. The typical way to access the debug version is to set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib64/pmdk_debug.

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

Install libpmemlog-debug 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 libpmemlog-debug using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libpmemlog-debug

Install libpmemlog-debug 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 libpmemlog-debug using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpmemlog-debug

How To Uninstall libpmemlog-debug on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libpmemlog-debug package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libpmemlog-debug

libpmemlog-debug Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/e3a8c3e0ba9bef0d734d57ef9e63b24c972525
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug/libpmemlog.so
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug/libpmemlog.so.1
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug/libpmemlog.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libpmemlog-debug
/usr/share/doc/libpmemlog-debug/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/libpmemlog-debug/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libpmemlog-debug/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemlog-debug
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemlog-debug/LICENSE

References

Summary

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