Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bloaty on CentOS 8.
What is bloaty
Ever wondered what’s making your binary big? Bloaty McBloatface will show you a size profile of the binary so you can understand what’s taking up space inside. Bloaty works on binaries, shared objects, object files, and static libraries. Bloaty supports the ELF and Mach-O formats, and has experimental support for WebAssembly.
We can use yum or dnf to install bloaty on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bloaty.
Install bloaty on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bloaty using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bloaty
Install bloaty on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bloaty using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bloaty
How To Uninstall bloaty on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bloaty package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bloaty
bloaty Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/bloaty
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/1a6471f73c061c9011b824df1ab5702f9675ea
/usr/share/doc/bloaty
/usr/share/doc/bloaty/README.md
/usr/share/doc/bloaty/how-bloaty-works.md
/usr/share/licenses/bloaty
/usr/share/licenses/bloaty/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bloaty on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
