How To Install dyninst.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dyninst.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. dyninst.i686 is An API for Run-time Code Generation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dyninst.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dyninst.i686`

Dyninst is an Application Program Interface (API) to permit the insertion of code into a running program. The API also permits changing or removing subroutine calls from the application program. Run-time code changes are useful to support a variety of applications including debugging, performance monitoring, and to support composing applications out of existing packages. The goal of this API is to provide a machine independent interface to permit the creation of tools and applications that use run-time code patching.

We can use yum to install dyninst.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dyninst.i686.

Install dyninst.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dyninst.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dyninst.i686

How To Uninstall dyninst.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dyninst.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dyninst.i686

dyninst.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/ld.so.conf.d/dyninst-i386.conf
/usr/lib/dyninst
/usr/lib/dyninst/libcommon.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libcommon.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libdynC_API.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libdynC_API.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libdynDwarf.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libdynDwarf.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libdynElf.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libdynElf.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libdyninstAPI.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libdyninstAPI.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libdyninstAPI_RT.so
/usr/lib/dyninst/libdyninstAPI_RT.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libdyninstAPI_RT.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libinstructionAPI.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libinstructionAPI.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libparseAPI.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libparseAPI.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libpatchAPI.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libpatchAPI.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libpcontrol.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libpcontrol.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libstackwalk.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libstackwalk.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libsymLite.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libsymLite.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib/dyninst/libsymtabAPI.so.9.3
/usr/lib/dyninst/libsymtabAPI.so.9.3.1
/usr/share/doc/dyninst-9.3.1
/usr/share/doc/dyninst-9.3.1/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/dyninst-9.3.1/LGPL

References

dyninst.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dyninst.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.