How To Install pprof.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pprof.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. pprof.noarch is CPU and Heap Profiler tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pprof.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pprof.noarch`

Pprof is a heap and CPU profiler tool, part of the gperftools suite.

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

Install pprof.noarch 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 pprof.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pprof.noarch

How To Uninstall pprof.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pprof.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pprof.noarch

pprof.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pprof
/usr/share/man/man1/pprof.1.gz

References

pprof.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pprof.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.