How To Install systemtap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. systemtap.x86_64 is Programmable system-wide instrumentation system

Introduction

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

What is systemtap.x86_64

SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux. Developers can write instrumentation scripts to collect data on the operation of the system. The base systemtap package contains/requires the components needed to locally develop and execute systemtap scripts.

We can use yum to install systemtap.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.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install systemtap.x86_64

How To Uninstall systemtap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove systemtap.x86_64

systemtap.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

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Summary

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