How To Install lttng-ust-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install lttng-ust-devel on CentOS 7. lttng-ust-devel is LTTng Userspace Tracer library headers and development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lttng-ust-devel on CentOS 7.

What is lttng-ust-devel

This library provides support for developing programs using LTTng userspace tracing

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

Install lttng-ust-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install lttng-ust-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lttng-ust-devel

Install lttng-ust-devel 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 lttng-ust-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lttng-ust-devel

How To Uninstall lttng-ust-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the lttng-ust-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lttng-ust-devel

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lttng-ust-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.