How To Install google-benchmark on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install google-benchmark on Rocky Linux 8.

What is google-benchmark

A library to support the benchmarking of functions, similar to unit-tests.

We can use yum or dnf to install google-benchmark on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install google-benchmark.

Install google-benchmark 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 google-benchmark using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install google-benchmark

Install google-benchmark 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 google-benchmark using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install google-benchmark

How To Uninstall google-benchmark on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the google-benchmark package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove google-benchmark

google-benchmark Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/5468494998ed4d31d515502a0772229eb6eaa5
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/49e8f08c28782bbdef5e0787948922f64085ff
/usr/lib64/libbenchmark.so.1
/usr/lib64/libbenchmark.so.1.5.5
/usr/lib64/libbenchmark_main.so.1
/usr/lib64/libbenchmark_main.so.1.5.5
/usr/share/doc/google-benchmark
/usr/share/doc/google-benchmark/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/google-benchmark/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/google-benchmark/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/google-benchmark/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/google-benchmark
/usr/share/licenses/google-benchmark/LICENSE

References

• google-benchmark website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install google-benchmark on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.