How To Install pcp-pmda-perfevent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-perfevent.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcp-pmda-perfevent.x86_64 is Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) metrics for hardware counters

Introduction

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

What is `pcp-pmda-perfevent.x86_64`

This package contains the PCP Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) for collecting hardware counters statistics through libpfm.

We can use yum to install pcp-pmda-perfevent.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-pmda-perfevent.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install pcp-pmda-perfevent.x86_64

How To Uninstall pcp-pmda-perfevent.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pcp-pmda-perfevent.x86_64

pcp-pmda-perfevent.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent/Install
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent/Remove
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent/Upgrade
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent/domain.h
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent/help
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent/perfalloc
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent/perfevent-makerewrite.pl
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent/perfevent.conf
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent/pmdaperfevent
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent/pmns
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/perfevent/root

References

pcp-pmda-perfevent.x86_64 website

Summary

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