How To Install bpfcc-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpfcc-tools
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is bpfcc-tools
bpfcc-tools is:
BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs
It makes use of extended BPF (Berkeley Package Filter) and provides tools for BPF based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring and more
This package provides the command-line tools and examples
There are three methods to install bpfcc-tools
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bpfcc-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bpfcc-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bpfcc-tools
Install bpfcc-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bpfcc-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bpfcc-tools
Install bpfcc-tools Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bpfcc-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bpfcc-tools
How To Uninstall bpfcc-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the bpfcc-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bpfcc-tools
Uninstall bpfcc-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bpfcc-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bpfcc-tools
Remove bpfcc-tools Configurations and Data
To remove bpfcc-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bpfcc-tools
Remove bpfcc-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bpfcc-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bpfcc-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bpfcc-tools
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.