How To Install systemtap on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap on Fedora 34.
What is systemtap
SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux. Developers can write instrumentation scripts to collect data on the operation of the system. The base systemtap package contains/requires the components needed to locally develop and execute systemtap scripts.
We can use yum or dnf to install systemtap on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install systemtap.
Install systemtap 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 systemtap using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install systemtap
Install systemtap 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 systemtap using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install systemtap
How To Uninstall systemtap on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the systemtap package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove systemtap
systemtap Package Contents on Fedora 34
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
