How To Install dwz.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dwz.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dwz.x86_64 is DWARF optimization and duplicate removal tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dwz.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dwz.x86_64`

The dwz package contains a program that attempts to optimize DWARF debugging information contained in ELF shared libraries and ELF executables for size, by replacing DWARF information representation with equivalent smaller representation where possible and by reducing the amount of duplication using techniques from DWARF standard appendix E - creating DW_TAG_partial_unit compilation units (CUs) for duplicated information and using DW_TAG_imported_unit to import it into each CU that needs it.

We can use yum to install dwz.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dwz.x86_64.

Install dwz.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dwz.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dwz.x86_64

How To Uninstall dwz.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dwz.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dwz.x86_64

dwz.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/dwz
/usr/share/doc/dwz-0.11
/usr/share/doc/dwz-0.11/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/dwz-0.11/COPYING.RUNTIME
/usr/share/doc/dwz-0.11/COPYING3
/usr/share/man/man1/dwz.1.gz

References

dwz.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dwz.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.