How To Install libpfm-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpfm-python.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpfm-python.x86_64 is Python bindings for libpfm and perf_event_open system call
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpfm-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libpfm-python.x86_64
Python bindings for libpfm4 and perf_event_open system call.
We can use yum to install libpfm-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libpfm-python.x86_64.
Install libpfm-python.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 libpfm-python.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libpfm-python.x86_64
How To Uninstall libpfm-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libpfm-python.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libpfm-python.x86_64
libpfm-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon-4.0-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/_perfmon_int.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/perfmon_int.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/perfmon_int.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/perfmon_int.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/pmu.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/pmu.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/pmu.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/session.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/session.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/perfmon/session.pyo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpfm-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.