How To Install perf on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perf
on CentOS 7.
What is perf
This package contains the perf tool, which enables performance monitoring of the Linux kernel.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install perf
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perf.
Install perf on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install perf
using yum
by running the following command:
Install perf 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 perf
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall perf on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the perf
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perf
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.