How To Install liblttng-ctl-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblttng-ctl-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liblttng-ctl-dev
liblttng-ctl-dev is:
The LTTng project aims at providing highly efficient tracing tools for Linux. Its tracers help tracking down performance issues and debugging problems involving multiple concurrent processes and threads. Tracing across multiple systems is also possible.
This package provides the development files for liblttng-ctl. This allows implementing trace control in external applications.
There are three methods to install liblttng-ctl-dev 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 liblttng-ctl-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblttng-ctl-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblttng-ctl-dev
Install liblttng-ctl-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblttng-ctl-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblttng-ctl-dev
Install liblttng-ctl-dev 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 liblttng-ctl-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblttng-ctl-dev
How To Uninstall liblttng-ctl-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liblttng-ctl-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblttng-ctl-dev
Uninstall liblttng-ctl-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblttng-ctl-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblttng-ctl-dev
Remove liblttng-ctl-dev Configurations and Data
To remove liblttng-ctl-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblttng-ctl-dev
Remove liblttng-ctl-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblttng-ctl-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblttng-ctl-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblttng-ctl-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
