How To Install systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64 is Systemtap Python 2 Runtime Support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64`

This package includes support files needed to run systemtap scripts that probe python 2 processes.

We can use yum to install systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64.

Install systemtap-runtime-python2.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 systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64

How To Uninstall systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64

systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT-0.1.0-py2.7.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT-0.1.0-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT-0.1.0-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT-0.1.0-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT-0.1.0-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT/_HelperSDT.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT/__main__.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT/__main__.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/HelperSDT/__main__.pyo

References

systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-runtime-python2.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.