How To Install systemtap-client on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-client on Debian 9. systemtap-client is instrumentation system for Linux (client for compile server)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-client on Debian 9.

What is systemtap-client

systemtap-client is:

This package contains client for SystemTap compile server. It can be used to compile probes on a remote machine running systemtap-server. This client can be run on a machine without full kernel debug information and development environment required for ‘systemtap’ package.

If you only want to compile systemtap probes locally just install ‘systemtap’ package.

SystemTap provides infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system.

There are three methods to install systemtap-client on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install systemtap-client Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install systemtap-client

Install systemtap-client Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install systemtap-client

Install systemtap-client 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 systemtap-client using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install systemtap-client

How To Uninstall systemtap-client on Debian 9

To uninstall only the systemtap-client package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove systemtap-client

Uninstall systemtap-client And Its Dependencies

To uninstall systemtap-client and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove systemtap-client

Remove systemtap-client Configurations and Data

To remove systemtap-client configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge systemtap-client

Remove systemtap-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge systemtap-client

Dependencies

systemtap-client have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-client package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.