How To Install systemtap-sdt-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

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

What is systemtap-sdt-devel.x86_64

This package includes the <sys/sdt.h> header file used for static instrumentation compiled into userspace programs and libraries, along with the optional dtrace-compatibility preprocessor to process related .d files into tracing-macro-laden .h headers.

We can use yum to install systemtap-sdt-devel.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-sdt-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install systemtap-sdt-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall systemtap-sdt-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove systemtap-sdt-devel.x86_64

systemtap-sdt-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/dtrace
/usr/include/sys/sdt-config.h
/usr/include/sys/sdt.h
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.systemtap
/usr/share/doc/systemtap-sdt-devel-4.4
/usr/share/doc/systemtap-sdt-devel-4.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/systemtap-sdt-devel-4.4/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/systemtap-sdt-devel-4.4/README
/usr/share/licenses/systemtap-sdt-devel-4.4
/usr/share/licenses/systemtap-sdt-devel-4.4/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/dtrace.1.gz

References

• systemtap-sdt-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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