How To Install gperftools on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools on Rocky Linux 8. gperftools is Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gperftools.

Install gperftools 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 gperftools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gperftools

Install gperftools 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 gperftools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gperftools

How To Uninstall gperftools on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the gperftools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gperftools

gperftools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

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Summary

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