How To Install byteman on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install byteman
on CentOS 7.
What is byteman
Byteman is a tool which simplifies tracing and testing of Java programs. Byteman allows you to insert extra Java code into your application, either as it is loaded during JVM startup or even after it has already started running. The injected code is allowed to access any of your data and call any application methods, including where they are private. You can inject code almost anywhere you want and there is no need to prepare the original source code in advance nor do you have to recompile, repackage or redeploy your application. In fact you can remove injected code and reinstall different code while the application continues to execute.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install byteman
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install byteman.
Install byteman on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install byteman
using yum
by running the following command:
Install byteman on CentOS 7 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.
After updating yum database, We can install byteman
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall byteman on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the byteman
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install byteman
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.