How To Install systemtap-server on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-server
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is systemtap-server
systemtap-server is:
This package contains compile server for SystemTap. It can be used together with systemtap client to compile probes on a remote machine. Probes will be compiled by the server on request of remote clients.
SystemTap provides infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system.
There are three methods to install systemtap-server
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-server 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-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install systemtap-server
Install systemtap-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install systemtap-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install systemtap-server
Install systemtap-server 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-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install systemtap-server
How To Uninstall systemtap-server on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the systemtap-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove systemtap-server
Uninstall systemtap-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall systemtap-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove systemtap-server
Remove systemtap-server Configurations and Data
To remove systemtap-server
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge systemtap-server
Remove systemtap-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove systemtap-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge systemtap-server
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-server
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.