How To Install libguestfs-benchmarking.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-benchmarking.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libguestfs-benchmarking.x86_64 is Benchmarking utilities for libguestfs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguestfs-benchmarking.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libguestfs-benchmarking.x86_64

libguestfs-benchmarking contains utilities for benchmarking and performance analysis of libguestfs, and also for general understanding of the performance of the kernel and qemu when booting small appliances.

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

Install libguestfs-benchmarking.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 libguestfs-benchmarking.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libguestfs-benchmarking.x86_64

How To Uninstall libguestfs-benchmarking.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libguestfs-benchmarking.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libguestfs-benchmarking.x86_64

libguestfs-benchmarking.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/libguestfs-boot-analysis
/usr/bin/libguestfs-boot-benchmark
/usr/bin/libguestfs-boot-benchmark-range.pl
/usr/share/man/man1/libguestfs-boot-analysis.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/libguestfs-boot-benchmark.1.gz

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Summary

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