How To Install libpfm-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpfm-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpfm-static.x86_64 is Static library to encode performance events for perf_events based

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpfm-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libpfm-static.x86_64`

Static version of the libpfm library for performance monitoring applications for the perf_events interface.

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

Install libpfm-static.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 libpfm-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpfm-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpfm-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libpfm-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libpfm-static.x86_64

libpfm-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpfm.a

References

libpfm-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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