How To Install systemtap-initscript on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-initscript on CentOS 8.
What is 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 systemtap-initscript on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install systemtap-initscript.
Install 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 systemtap-initscript using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install systemtap-initscript
Install 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 systemtap-initscript using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install systemtap-initscript
How To Uninstall systemtap-initscript on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the systemtap-initscript package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove systemtap-initscript
systemtap-initscript Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/systemtap
/etc/systemtap/conf.d
/etc/systemtap/config
/etc/systemtap/script.d
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap/check
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap/install
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap/module-setup.sh
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap/params.conf
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99stap/start-staprun.sh
/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemtap.service
/usr/sbin/systemtap-service
/usr/share/man/man8/systemtap-service.8.gz
/var/cache/systemtap
/var/run/systemtap
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-initscript on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.