How To Install erlang-et on CentOS 8

erlang-et is An event tracer for Erlang programs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-et on CentOS 8.

What is erlang-et

An event tracer for Erlang programs.

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

Install erlang-et 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 erlang-et using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install erlang-et

Install erlang-et 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 erlang-et using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install erlang-et

How To Uninstall erlang-et on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the erlang-et package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove erlang-et

erlang-et Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/ebin
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/ebin/et.app
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/ebin/et.appup
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/ebin/et.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/ebin/et_collector.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/ebin/et_selector.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/ebin/et_viewer.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/ebin/et_wx_contents_viewer.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/ebin/et_wx_viewer.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/include
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/include/et.hrl
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/src
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/et-1.6.4/src/et_internal.hrl

References

Summary

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