How To Install libpfm on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpfm
on CentOS 7.
What is libpfm
libpfm4 is a library to help encode events for use with operating system kernels performance monitoring interfaces. The current version provides support for the perf_events interface available in upstream Linux kernels since v2.6.31. libpfm4 is a library to help encode events for use with operating system kernels performance monitoring interfaces. The current version provides support for the perf_events interface available in upstream Linux kernels since v2.6.31.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libpfm
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libpfm.
Install libpfm on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libpfm
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libpfm 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 libpfm
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libpfm on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libpfm
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpfm
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.