How To Install frysk on Fedora 34

frysk is Execution analysis and debugging tool-suite

Introduction

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

What is frysk

Frysk is an execution-analysis technology implemented using native Java and C++. It is aimed at providing developers and sysadmins with the ability to both examine and analyze running multi-host, multi-process, multi-threaded systems. Frysk allows the monitoring of running processes and threads, of locking primitives and will also expose deadlocks, gather data and debug any given process in the system.

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

Install frysk 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 frysk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install frysk

Install frysk 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 frysk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install frysk

How To Uninstall frysk on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove frysk

frysk Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fauxv
/usr/bin/fcatch
/usr/bin/fcore
/usr/bin/fdebugdump
/usr/bin/fdebuginfo
/usr/bin/fdebugrpm
/usr/bin/ferror
/usr/bin/fexe
/usr/bin/fhpd
/usr/bin/fmaps
/usr/bin/fstack
/usr/bin/fstep
/usr/bin/ftrace
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/0181fca97cfcc4f7a92d24a3772eb79091200c
/usr/lib64/frysk/java/frysk-core.jar
/usr/lib64/frysk/java/frysk-sys.jar
/usr/lib64/frysk/java/getopt.jar
/usr/lib64/frysk/libfrysk-sys-jni.so
/usr/share/doc/frysk
/usr/share/doc/frysk/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/frysk/EXCEPTION
/usr/share/man/man1/fauxv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fcatch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fcore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fdebugdump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fdebuginfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fdebugrpm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ferror.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fexe.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fhpd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fmaps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fstack.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fstep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ftrace.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/frysk.7.gz

References

Summary

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