How To Install systemtap-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-devel on CentOS 7.
What is systemtap-devel
This package contains the components needed to compile a systemtap script from source form into executable (.ko) forms. It may be installed on a self-contained developer workstation (along with the systemtap-client and systemtap-runtime packages), or on a dedicated remote server (alongside the systemtap-server package). It includes a copy of the standard tapset library and the runtime library C files.
We can use yum or dnf to install systemtap-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install systemtap-devel.
Install systemtap-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 systemtap-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install systemtap-devel
Install systemtap-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 systemtap-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install systemtap-devel
How To Uninstall systemtap-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the systemtap-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove systemtap-devel
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
