How To Install glibc-utils on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-utils on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glibc-utils.
Install glibc-utils on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install glibc-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install glibc-utils
Install glibc-utils on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install glibc-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install glibc-utils
How To Uninstall glibc-utils on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the glibc-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove glibc-utils
glibc-utils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/memusage
/usr/bin/memusagestat
/usr/bin/mtrace
/usr/bin/pcprofiledump
/usr/bin/xtrace
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/6ec484094f99bc638f5a628dad06d0cef76c5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/67d0984748ef3d8f4fcdf58c3c28011b4b7659
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glibc-utils on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.