How To Install bpftrace on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpftrace on CentOS 8.
What is bpftrace
BPFtrace is a high-level tracing language for Linux enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) available in recent Linux kernels (4.x). BPFtrace uses LLVM as a backend to compile scripts to BPF-bytecode and makes use of BCC for interacting with the Linux BPF system, as well as existing Linux tracing capabilities (uprobes), and tracepoints. The BPFtrace language is inspired by awk and C, and predecessor tracers such as DTrace and SystemTap
We can use yum or dnf to install bpftrace on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bpftrace.
Install bpftrace on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bpftrace using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bpftrace
Install bpftrace on CentOS 8 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bpftrace using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bpftrace
How To Uninstall bpftrace on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bpftrace package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bpftrace
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpftrace on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.