How To Install systemtap-runtime-virthost on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-runtime-virthost on Rocky Linux 8. systemtap-runtime-virthost is Systemtap Cross-VM Instrumentation - host

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-runtime-virthost on Rocky Linux 8.

What is systemtap-runtime-virthost

This package includes the components required to run systemtap scripts inside a libvirt-managed domain from the host without using a network connection.

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

Install systemtap-runtime-virthost 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 systemtap-runtime-virthost using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install systemtap-runtime-virthost

Install systemtap-runtime-virthost 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 systemtap-runtime-virthost using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install systemtap-runtime-virthost

How To Uninstall systemtap-runtime-virthost on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the systemtap-runtime-virthost package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove systemtap-runtime-virthost

systemtap-runtime-virthost Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/stapvirt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/9c2ac01e5cf0672b3125690fd0af6be0c3696c
/usr/share/man/man1/stapvirt.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-runtime-virthost on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.