How To Install oprofile-jit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install oprofile-jit.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. oprofile-jit.x86_64 is Libraries required for profiling Java and other JITed code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install oprofile-jit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `oprofile-jit.x86_64`

This package includes a base JIT support library, as well as a Java agent library.

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

Install oprofile-jit.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 oprofile-jit.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install oprofile-jit.x86_64

How To Uninstall oprofile-jit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the oprofile-jit.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove oprofile-jit.x86_64

oprofile-jit.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/ld.so.conf.d/oprofile-x86_64.conf
/usr/lib64/oprofile
/usr/lib64/oprofile/libjvmti_oprofile.a
/usr/lib64/oprofile/libjvmti_oprofile.la
/usr/lib64/oprofile/libjvmti_oprofile.so
/usr/lib64/oprofile/libjvmti_oprofile.so.0
/usr/lib64/oprofile/libjvmti_oprofile.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/oprofile/libopagent.a
/usr/lib64/oprofile/libopagent.la
/usr/lib64/oprofile/libopagent.so
/usr/lib64/oprofile/libopagent.so.1
/usr/lib64/oprofile/libopagent.so.1.0.1

References

oprofile-jit.x86_64 website

Summary

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