How To Install bench on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install bench in Fedora 36. bench is Command-line benchmark tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bench on Fedora 36.

What is `bench`

Think of this as a more powerful alternative to the ’time’ command. Use this command-line tool to benchmark a command using Haskell’s ‘criterion’ library.

We can use yum or dnf to install bench on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bench.

Install bench on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bench using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bench

Install bench on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bench using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bench

How To Uninstall bench on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove bench

bench Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/bench
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/87ccb38be7a3452addb1d249d77bf1171d81e1
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/bench
/usr/share/doc/bench
/usr/share/doc/bench/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bench
/usr/share/licenses/bench/LICENSE

References

bench website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bench on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).