How To Install libpfm on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpfm on Rocky Linux 8. libpfm is Library to encode performance events for use by perf tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpfm on Rocky Linux 8.

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.

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

Install libpfm 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 libpfm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libpfm

Install libpfm 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 libpfm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpfm

How To Uninstall libpfm on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libpfm

libpfm Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/53886cd1f79731c9377ffdf727db7434028906
/usr/lib64/libpfm.so.4
/usr/lib64/libpfm.so.4.10.1
/usr/share/doc/libpfm
/usr/share/doc/libpfm/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/eb5a7e8321fae110655e67f0719917577651c5
/usr/lib/libpfm.so.4
/usr/lib/libpfm.so.4.10.1
/usr/share/doc/libpfm
/usr/share/doc/libpfm/README

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Summary

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