How To Install dyninst.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dyninst.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dyninst.x86_64 is An API for Run-time Code Generation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dyninst.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dyninst.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dyninst.x86_64.

Install dyninst.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dyninst.x86_64

How To Uninstall dyninst.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dyninst.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dyninst.x86_64

dyninst.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/ld.so.conf.d/dyninst-x86_64.conf
/usr/lib64/dyninst
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libcommon.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libcommon.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libdynC_API.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libdynC_API.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libdynDwarf.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libdynDwarf.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libdynElf.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libdynElf.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libdyninstAPI.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libdyninstAPI.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libdyninstAPI_RT.so
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libdyninstAPI_RT.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libdyninstAPI_RT.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libinstructionAPI.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libinstructionAPI.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libparseAPI.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libparseAPI.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libpatchAPI.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libpatchAPI.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libpcontrol.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libpcontrol.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libstackwalk.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libstackwalk.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libsymLite.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libsymLite.so.9.3.1
/usr/lib64/dyninst/libsymtabAPI.so.9.3
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dyninst.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.