How To Install gperftools on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gperftools.
Install gperftools on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install gperftools
using yum
by running the following command:
Install gperftools 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 gperftools
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall gperftools on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gperftools
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.