How To Install vmtouch on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install vmtouch on Rocky Linux 8. vmtouch is Portable file system cache diagnostics and control

Introduction

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

What is vmtouch

Vmtouch is a tool for learning about and controlling the file system cache of Unix and Unix-like systems.

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

Install vmtouch 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 vmtouch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vmtouch

Install vmtouch 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 vmtouch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vmtouch

How To Uninstall vmtouch on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove vmtouch

vmtouch Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/vmtouch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/b12ef6140370c476481263c895ccc9c90df45b
/usr/share/doc/vmtouch
/usr/share/doc/vmtouch/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/vmtouch/README.md
/usr/share/doc/vmtouch/TODO
/usr/share/doc/vmtouch/TUNING.md
/usr/share/man/man8/vmtouch.8.gz

References

Summary

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