How To Install heaptrack on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install heaptrack in Fedora 36. heaptrack is A heap memory profiler for Linux

Introduction

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

What is `heaptrack`

Heaptrack traces all memory allocations and annotates these events with stack traces.Dedicated analysis tools then allow you to interpret the heap memory profile to - find hotspots that need to be optimized to reduce the memory footprint of your application - find memory leaks, i.e. locations that allocate memory which is never deallocated - find allocation hotspots, i.e. code locations that trigger a lot of memory allocation calls - find temporary allocations, which are allocations that are directly followed by their deallocation

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

Install heaptrack 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 heaptrack using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install heaptrack

Install heaptrack 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 heaptrack using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install heaptrack

How To Uninstall heaptrack on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove heaptrack

heaptrack Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/heaptrack
/usr/bin/heaptrack_gui
/usr/bin/heaptrack_print
/usr/include/heaptrack_api.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/38b3604c7fa321a23b2f7efa66112d81497c99
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/7fc113afe857bb8566864979423c15f471b006
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/54193d957b0e1a41965d63b641d187b24b4754
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/15d9c5133159cc43e39a938c8bfd5fa81c1053
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/756b888128d20013481c45f45bb1410d77d05a
/usr/lib64/heaptrack
/usr/lib64/heaptrack/libexec/heaptrack_interpret
/usr/lib64/heaptrack/libheaptrack_inject.so
/usr/lib64/heaptrack/libheaptrack_preload.so
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.heaptrack.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/heaptrack.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/heaptrack.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/heaptrack.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/heaptrack.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/heaptrack.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/heaptrack.png
/usr/share/licenses/heaptrack
/usr/share/licenses/heaptrack/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/heaptrack.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.heaptrack.appdata.xml

References

heaptrack website

Summary

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