How To Install systemtap on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap on Rocky Linux 8. systemtap is Programmable system-wide instrumentation system

Introduction

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

What is systemtap

SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux. Developers can write instrumentation scripts to collect data on the operation of the system. The base systemtap package contains/requires the components needed to locally develop and execute systemtap scripts.

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

Install systemtap 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 systemtap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install systemtap

Install systemtap 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 systemtap using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install systemtap

How To Uninstall systemtap on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove systemtap

systemtap Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

References

Summary

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