How To Install pcp-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcp-libs.x86_64 is Performance Co-Pilot run-time libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pcp-libs.x86_64`

Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) run-time libraries

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

Install pcp-libs.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 pcp-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcp-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall pcp-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pcp-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pcp-libs.x86_64

pcp-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpcp.so.3
/usr/lib64/libpcp_gui.so.2
/usr/lib64/libpcp_import.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpcp_mmv.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpcp_pmda.so.3
/usr/lib64/libpcp_trace.so.2
/usr/lib64/libpcp_web.so.1

References

pcp-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

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