How To Install hotspot on Fedora 34

hotspot is The Linux perf GUI for performance analysis

Introduction

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

What is hotspot

A standalone GUI for performance data. Attempting to provide a UI like KCachegrind around Linux perf.

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

Install hotspot 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 hotspot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hotspot

Install hotspot 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 hotspot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hotspot

How To Uninstall hotspot on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove hotspot

hotspot Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/hotspot
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/fcc88b8e8392dd32aa0b179ab2619e3980bb47
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/177f11af1aac60cb35ff90aee03d6b9cb560a6
/usr/libexec/elevate_perf_privileges.sh
/usr/libexec/hotspot-perfparser
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/hotspot.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/hotspot.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/hotspot.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/hotspot.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/hotspot.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/hotspot.png
/usr/share/licenses/hotspot
/usr/share/licenses/hotspot/LICENSE.GPL.txt

References

Summary

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