How To Install gperftools on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools
on Fedora 34.
What is gperftools
Perf Tools is a collection of performance analysis tools, including a high-performance multi-threaded malloc() implementation that works particularly well with threads and STL, a thread-friendly heap-checker, a heap profiler, and a cpu-profiler. This is a metapackage which pulls in all of the gperftools (and pprof) binaries, libraries, and development headers, so that you can use them.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install gperftools
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gperftools.
Install gperftools 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 gperftools
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gperftools
Install gperftools 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 gperftools
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gperftools
How To Uninstall gperftools on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gperftools
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gperftools
gperftools Package Contents on Fedora 34
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.