How To Install babeltrace on Fedora 34

babeltrace is Trace Viewer and Converter, mainly for the Common Trace Format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install babeltrace on Fedora 34.

What is babeltrace

This project provides trace read and write libraries, as well as a trace converter. A plugin can be created for any trace format to allow its conversion to/from another trace format. The main format expected to be converted to/from is the Common Trace Format (CTF). See http

We can use yum or dnf to install babeltrace on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install babeltrace.

Install babeltrace on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install babeltrace using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install babeltrace

Install babeltrace on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install babeltrace using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install babeltrace

How To Uninstall babeltrace on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove babeltrace

babeltrace Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/babeltrace
/usr/bin/babeltrace-log
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/273e8bc3c4d72f32a02107c490996f5dfba3d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/d5613cb12b1c900f7385d7ac1b7fce93decfd3
/usr/share/doc/babeltrace
/usr/share/doc/babeltrace/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/babeltrace/lttng-live.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/babeltrace-log.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/babeltrace.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install babeltrace on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.