How To Install gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript on CentOS 8

gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript is Systemtap Initscripts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript on CentOS 8.

What is gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript

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 or dnf to install gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript.

Install gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript 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 gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript

Install gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript 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 gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript

How To Uninstall gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript

gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/rc.d/init.d/gcc-toolset-9-systemtap
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/etc/systemtap
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/etc/systemtap/conf.d
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/etc/systemtap/config
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/etc/systemtap/script.d
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99gcc-toolset-9-stap
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99gcc-toolset-9-stap/check
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99gcc-toolset-9-stap/install
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99gcc-toolset-9-stap/module-setup.sh
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99gcc-toolset-9-stap/params.conf
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99gcc-toolset-9-stap/start-staprun.sh
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/sbin/systemtap-service
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/share/man/man8/systemtap-service.8.gz
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/var/cache/systemtap
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/var/run/systemtap

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gcc-toolset-9-systemtap-initscript on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.