How To Install liblttng-ctl0 on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblttng-ctl0 on Ubuntu 18.04. liblttng-ctl0 is LTTng control and utility library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblttng-ctl0 on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liblttng-ctl0

liblttng-ctl0 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 control libraries used by lttng-tools.

There are three methods to install liblttng-ctl0 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-ctl0 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-ctl0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblttng-ctl0

Install liblttng-ctl0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblttng-ctl0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblttng-ctl0

Install liblttng-ctl0 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-ctl0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblttng-ctl0

How To Uninstall liblttng-ctl0 on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liblttng-ctl0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblttng-ctl0

Uninstall liblttng-ctl0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblttng-ctl0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblttng-ctl0

Remove liblttng-ctl0 Configurations and Data

To remove liblttng-ctl0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblttng-ctl0

Remove liblttng-ctl0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblttng-ctl0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblttng-ctl0

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblttng-ctl0 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.