How to Install and Uninstall libpfm4 Package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Last updated: September 28,2024

1. Install "libpfm4" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install libpfm4 on openSuSE Tumbleweed


    
        
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                sudo zypper refresh
            
                    
    
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                sudo zypper install
            
                        
                libpfm4
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libpfm4" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libpfm4 on openSuSE Tumbleweed:


    
        
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                sudo zypper remove
            
                        
                libpfm4
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libpfm4 package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Information for package libpfm4:
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Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name : libpfm4
Version : 4.13.0-1.7
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 2.6 MiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : libpfm-4.13.0-1.7.src
Upstream URL : https://perfmon2.sourceforge.net/
Summary : Runtime library to encode performance events for use by perf tool
Description :
This package provides a library that can be used to encode events into the
format required by the operating systems performance monitoring subsystem.
The library does not make any performance monitoring system calls, it simply
provides a method to convert an event name, expressed as a string, to an event
encoding. The user of the library may use this event encoding in a subsequent
system call.
The current libpfm4 provides support for the perf_events interface which was
introduced in Linux v2.6.31.