How To Install latrace.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install latrace.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. latrace.x86_64 is LD_AUDIT feature frontend for glibc 2.4+

Introduction

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

What is `latrace.x86_64`

allows you to trace library calls and get their statistics in a manner similar to the strace utility (syscall tracing)

We can use yum to install latrace.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install latrace.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install latrace.x86_64

How To Uninstall latrace.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove latrace.x86_64

latrace.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/latrace.d
/etc/latrace.d/headers
/etc/latrace.d/headers/ctype.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/dirent.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/dlfcn.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/fcntl.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/getopt.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/inet.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/ioctl.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/latrace.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/libintl.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/libio.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/locale.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/misc.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/mman.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/ncurses.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/netdb.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/pthread.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/pwd.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/resource.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/signal.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/socket.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/stat.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/stdio.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/stdlib.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/string.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/sysdeps
/etc/latrace.d/headers/sysdeps/x86_64
/etc/latrace.d/headers/sysdeps/x86_64/latrace.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/sysdeps/x86_64/syscall.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/syslog.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/term.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/termios.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/time.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/typedefs.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/unistd.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/utmp.h
/etc/latrace.d/headers/wait.h
/etc/latrace.d/latrace.conf
/usr/bin/latrace
/usr/bin/latrace-ctl
/usr/lib64/libltaudit.so.0.5.11
/usr/share/doc/latrace-0.5.11
/usr/share/doc/latrace-0.5.11/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/latrace-0.5.11/README
/usr/share/doc/latrace-0.5.11/ReleaseNotes
/usr/share/doc/latrace-0.5.11/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/latrace.1.gz

References

latrace.x86_64 website

Summary

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