How To Install pstack on Debian 10

Learn how to install pstack on Debian 10 with this tutorial. pstack is Display stack trace of a running process

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pstack on Debian 10.

What is pstack

pstack is:

pstack dumps a stack trace for a process, given the PID of that process. If the process named is part of a thread group, then all the threads in the group are traced.

There are three methods to install pstack on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install pstack Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pstack using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pstack

Install pstack Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pstack using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pstack

Install pstack 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install pstack using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pstack

How To Uninstall pstack on Debian 10

To uninstall only the pstack package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pstack

Uninstall pstack And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pstack and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pstack

Remove pstack Configurations and Data

To remove pstack configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pstack

Remove pstack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pstack configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pstack

Dependencies

pstack have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pstack package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.