How To Install systemtap-initscript.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-initscript.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. systemtap-initscript.x86_64 is Systemtap Initscripts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-initscript.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `systemtap-initscript.x86_64`

This package includes a SysVinit script to launch selected systemtap scripts at system startup, along with a dracut module for early boot-time probing if supported.

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

Install systemtap-initscript.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 systemtap-initscript.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install systemtap-initscript.x86_64

How To Uninstall systemtap-initscript.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the systemtap-initscript.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove systemtap-initscript.x86_64

systemtap-initscript.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/systemtap
/etc/systemtap/conf.d
/etc/systemtap/config
/etc/systemtap/script.d
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap/check
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap/install
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap/module-setup.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap/params.conf
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap/start-staprun.sh
/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemtap.service
/usr/sbin/systemtap-service
/usr/share/man/man8/systemtap-service.8.gz
/var/cache/systemtap
/var/run/systemtap

References

systemtap-initscript.x86_64 website

Summary

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