How To Install bloaty on Fedora 34

bloaty is A size profiler for binaries

Introduction

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

What is `bloaty`

Ever wondered what’s making your binary big? Bloaty McBloatface will show you a size profile of the binary so you can understand what’s taking up space inside. Bloaty works on binaries, shared objects, object files, and static libraries. Bloaty supports the ELF and Mach-O formats, and has experimental support for WebAssembly.

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

Install bloaty 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 bloaty using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bloaty

Install bloaty 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 bloaty using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bloaty

How To Uninstall bloaty on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove bloaty

bloaty Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bloaty
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/17c6e11790bea6a7fd7d874d3fa1cc0fd5d731
/usr/share/doc/bloaty
/usr/share/doc/bloaty/README.md
/usr/share/doc/bloaty/how-bloaty-works.md
/usr/share/licenses/bloaty
/usr/share/licenses/bloaty/LICENSE

References

bloaty website

Summary

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