How To Install bcc-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bcc-devel on CentOS 8.
What is bcc-devel
The bcc-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing application that use BPF Compiler Collection (BCC).
We can use yum or dnf to install bcc-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bcc-devel.
Install bcc-devel on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bcc-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bcc-devel
Install bcc-devel on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bcc-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bcc-devel
How To Uninstall bcc-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bcc-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bcc-devel
bcc-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/bcc
/usr/include/bcc/BPF.h
/usr/include/bcc/BPFTable.h
/usr/include/bcc/bcc_common.h
/usr/include/bcc/bcc_elf.h
/usr/include/bcc/bcc_exception.h
/usr/include/bcc/bcc_proc.h
/usr/include/bcc/bcc_syms.h
/usr/include/bcc/bcc_usdt.h
/usr/include/bcc/bcc_version.h
/usr/include/bcc/bpf_module.h
/usr/include/bcc/compat
/usr/include/bcc/compat/linux
/usr/include/bcc/compat/linux/bpf.h
/usr/include/bcc/compat/linux/bpf_common.h
/usr/include/bcc/compat/linux/btf.h
/usr/include/bcc/compat/linux/if_link.h
/usr/include/bcc/compat/linux/if_xdp.h
/usr/include/bcc/compat/linux/netlink.h
/usr/include/bcc/file_desc.h
/usr/include/bcc/libbpf.h
/usr/include/bcc/perf_reader.h
/usr/include/bcc/table_desc.h
/usr/include/bcc/table_storage.h
/usr/lib64/libbcc-no-libbpf.so
/usr/lib64/libbcc.so
/usr/lib64/libbcc_bpf.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libbcc.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bcc-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.