How To Install gperftools on Fedora 34

gperftools is Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools

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.