How To Install gperftools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gperftools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gperftools.x86_64 is Very fast malloc and performance analysis tools

Introduction

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

What is gperftools.x86_64

Perf Tools is a collection of performance analysis tools, including a high-performance multi-threaded malloc() implementation that works particularly well with threads and STL, a thread-friendly heap-checker, a heap profiler, and a cpu-profiler. This is a metapackage which pulls in all of the gperftools (and pprof) binaries, libraries, and development headers, so that you can use them.

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

Install gperftools.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 gperftools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gperftools.x86_64

How To Uninstall gperftools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove gperftools.x86_64

gperftools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

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Summary

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