Information about the package, oprofile, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The oprofile package is designed for, System wide profiler.
Package Name:
oprofile
Summary:
System wide profiler
Description:
OProfile is a profiling system for systems running Linux. The profiling runs transparently during the background, and profile data can be collected at any time. OProfile makes use of the hardware performance counters provided on Intel P6, and AMD Athlon family processors, and can use the RTC for profiling on other x86 processor types. See the HTML documentation for further details.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.9.9
Release:
21.el6
Size:
2.8 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the oprofile package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install oprofile
This command will install oprofile on the server.
yum remove oprofile
This command will un-install oprofile on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove oprofile, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove oprofile
This command will un-install oprofile on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove oprofile when using the -y flag.
yum update oprofile
This command will update oprofile to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove oprofile, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update oprofile
This command will update oprofile to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove oprofile when using the -y flag.
yum info oprofile
This command will show you core information about the oprofile package.
yum deplist oprofile
This command will show you the dependencies for oprofile. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update oprofile
This command will check if there is an update waiting on oprofile. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.