How To Install libpmempool-debug on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmempool-debug on CentOS 7. libpmempool-debug is Debug variant of the Persistent Memory pool management library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmempool-debug on CentOS 7.

What is libpmempool-debug

The libpmempool library provides a set of utilities for off-line administration, analysis, diagnostics and repair of persistent memory pools created by libpmemlog, libpemblk and libpmemobj libraries. This sub-package contains debug variant of the library, providing run-time assertions and trace points. The typical way to access the debug version is to set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib64/pmdk_debug.

We can use yum or dnf to install libpmempool-debug on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libpmempool-debug.

Install libpmempool-debug on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install libpmempool-debug using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpmempool-debug

Install libpmempool-debug 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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install libpmempool-debug using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libpmempool-debug

How To Uninstall libpmempool-debug on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the libpmempool-debug package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libpmempool-debug

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmempool-debug on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.