Yum install can't find perf library

Question

I am trying yum install perf(this tool), but I get:

Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Install Process
No package perf available.
Error: Nothing to do

My OS details: Linux version 2.6.32, Red Hat 4.4.5-6 (as read from /proc/version).

I also tried yum install linux-tools with no success. The webpage I linked says that this should be available starting from 2.6.31 kernel version, but it's not!

Is there anything I could do about it or some alternative I can use?

Wrong site. Not a programming question. – tink Feb 15 '16 at 19:04 — tink, Feb 15 '16 at 19:04
This does need to get moved to another site though :( – eddyP23 Feb 18 '16 at 11:40 — eddyP23, Feb 18 '16 at 11:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 16 '16 at 13:31

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RHEL 4 is really old and its kernel does not support perf as written in your linked wikipedia article

Perf is natively supported in many popular Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (since its version 6 released in 2010).

answered Feb 16 '16 at 13:31

Jakuje

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '16 at 11:38

The problem was that most of the default CentOS repos were disabled in the repos list on the server I was using. You can check the status of repos running yum repolist all.

Then running yum-config-manager --enable C6* enables all repos with ids starting with C6. That fixed my problem!

Yum install can't find perf library

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