How To Install glibc-utils on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-utils on CentOS 7. glibc-utils is Development utilities from GNU C library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-utils on CentOS 7.

What is glibc-utils

The glibc-utils package contains memusage, a memory usage profiler, mtrace, a memory leak tracer and xtrace, a function call tracer which can be helpful during program debugging. If unsure if you need this, don’t install this package.

We can use yum or dnf to install glibc-utils on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glibc-utils.

Install glibc-utils on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install glibc-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glibc-utils

Install glibc-utils 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.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install glibc-utils

How To Uninstall glibc-utils on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the glibc-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove glibc-utils

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-utils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.