How To Install bloaty on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bloaty on AlmaLinux 8.
What is bloaty
Ever wondered what’s making your binary big? Bloaty McBloatface will show you a size profile of the binary so you can understand what’s taking up space inside. Bloaty works on binaries, shared objects, object files, and static libraries. Bloaty supports the ELF and Mach-O formats, and has experimental support for WebAssembly.
We can use yum or dnf to install bloaty on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bloaty.
Install bloaty on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install bloaty using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bloaty
Install bloaty on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install bloaty using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bloaty
How To Uninstall bloaty on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the bloaty package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bloaty
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bloaty on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
