How To Install systemtap-runtime on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-runtime
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is systemtap-runtime
systemtap-runtime is:
This package contains staprun program that can be used to run compiled SystemTap probes.
SystemTap provides infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system.
To be able to write new SystemTap probes, install systemtap package.
There are three methods to install systemtap-runtime
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install systemtap-runtime 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-runtime
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install systemtap-runtime
Install systemtap-runtime Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install systemtap-runtime
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install systemtap-runtime
Install systemtap-runtime 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 systemtap-runtime
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install systemtap-runtime
How To Uninstall systemtap-runtime on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the systemtap-runtime
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove systemtap-runtime
Uninstall systemtap-runtime And Its Dependencies
To uninstall systemtap-runtime
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove systemtap-runtime
Remove systemtap-runtime Configurations and Data
To remove systemtap-runtime
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge systemtap-runtime
Remove systemtap-runtime configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove systemtap-runtime
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge systemtap-runtime
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-runtime
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.