How To Install libpmempool-debug on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmempool-debug on Rocky Linux 8. libpmempool-debug is Debug variant of the Persistent Memory pool management library

Introduction

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

What is libpmempool-debug

The libpmempool library provides a set of utilities for off-line administration, analysis, diagnostics and repair of persistent memory pools created by libpmemlog, libpemblk and libpmemobj libraries. 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 libpmempool-debug on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libpmempool-debug.

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

sudo dnf -y install libpmempool-debug

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

sudo yum -y install libpmempool-debug

How To Uninstall libpmempool-debug on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libpmempool-debug

libpmempool-debug Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/360796aff21c81f5c5d4a45f42c3360afdb952
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug/libpmempool.so
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug/libpmempool.so.1
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug/libpmempool.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libpmempool-debug
/usr/share/doc/libpmempool-debug/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/libpmempool-debug/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libpmempool-debug/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libpmempool-debug
/usr/share/licenses/libpmempool-debug/LICENSE

References

Summary

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