How To Install pmempool on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pmempool on CentOS 8.
What is pmempool
The pmempool is a standalone utility for management and off-line analysis of Persistent Memory pools created by PMDK libraries. It provides a set of utilities for administration and diagnostics of Persistent Memory pools. The pmempool may be useful for troubleshooting by system administrators and users of the applications based on PMDK libraries.
We can use yum or dnf to install pmempool on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pmempool.
Install pmempool 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 pmempool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pmempool
Install pmempool 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 pmempool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pmempool
How To Uninstall pmempool on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pmempool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pmempool
pmempool Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/bash_completion.d/pmempool
/usr/bin/pmempool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/30f4859b660bb3b3fcb00c59d9ddc4ddef9f27
/usr/share/doc/pmempool
/usr/share/doc/pmempool/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/pmempool/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pmempool/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/pmempool
/usr/share/licenses/pmempool/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-check.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-convert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-dump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-feature.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-rm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-sync.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-transform.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pmempool on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.