How To Install bloaty on CentOS 8

bloaty is A size profiler for binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bloaty on CentOS 8.

What is bloaty

Ever wondered what’s making your binary big? Bloaty McBloatface will show you a size profile of the binary so you can understand what’s taking up space inside. Bloaty works on binaries, shared objects, object files, and static libraries. Bloaty supports the ELF and Mach-O formats, and has experimental support for WebAssembly.

We can use yum or dnf to install bloaty on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bloaty.

Install bloaty 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 bloaty using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bloaty

Install bloaty 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 bloaty using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bloaty

How To Uninstall bloaty on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bloaty package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bloaty

bloaty Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/bloaty
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/1a6471f73c061c9011b824df1ab5702f9675ea
/usr/share/doc/bloaty
/usr/share/doc/bloaty/README.md
/usr/share/doc/bloaty/how-bloaty-works.md
/usr/share/licenses/bloaty
/usr/share/licenses/bloaty/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bloaty on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.