How To Install gperftools on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools on AlmaLinux 8.
What is gperftools
Perf Tools is a collection of performance analysis tools, including a high-performance multi-threaded malloc() implementation that works particularly well with threads and STL, a thread-friendly heap-checker, a heap profiler, and a cpu-profiler. This is a metapackage which pulls in all of the gperftools (and pprof) binaries, libraries, and development headers, so that you can use them.
We can use yum or dnf to install gperftools on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gperftools.
Install gperftools on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install gperftools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gperftools
Install gperftools on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install gperftools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gperftools
How To Uninstall gperftools on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the gperftools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gperftools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
