How To Install lttng-modules-dkms on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lttng-modules-dkms
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is lttng-modules-dkms
lttng-modules-dkms 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 contains the LTTng kernel modules. These provide additional instrumentation (not found in the mainline kernel), the ring buffer library, the tracer itself, and some additional utilities.
Installing on kernel versions prior to 2.6.38 might be possible, but has not been tested.
Package: lttng-modules-dkms Architecture: all Version: 2.11.2-1 Priority: extra Section: universe/misc Source: lttng-modules Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Jon Bernard [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 3115 Depends: dkms (>= 2.1.0.0) Recommends: lttng-tools Filename: pool/universe/l/lttng-modules/lttng-modules-dkms_2.11.2-1_all.deb Size: 275192 MD5sum: ae4c2918de43f4a3880663df4c8a7cc3 SHA1: ff10a64964b9b9a2d292bf553f5a927437ad6536 SHA256: 726b6f604b6cb68cc697fb51b150b665a38fecf21126445be01ea7fd338f0bf7 Homepage: https://lttng.org Description-en: Linux Trace Toolkit (LTTng) kernel modules (DKMS) 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 contains the LTTng kernel modules. These provide additional instrumentation (not found in the mainline kernel), the ring buffer library, the tracer itself, and some additional utilities.
Installing on kernel versions prior to 2.6.38 might be possible, but has not been tested.
There are three methods to install lttng-modules-dkms
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 lttng-modules-dkms Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lttng-modules-dkms
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lttng-modules-dkms
Install lttng-modules-dkms Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lttng-modules-dkms
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lttng-modules-dkms
Install lttng-modules-dkms 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 lttng-modules-dkms
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lttng-modules-dkms
How To Uninstall lttng-modules-dkms on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the lttng-modules-dkms
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lttng-modules-dkms
Uninstall lttng-modules-dkms And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lttng-modules-dkms
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lttng-modules-dkms
Remove lttng-modules-dkms Configurations and Data
To remove lttng-modules-dkms
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lttng-modules-dkms
Remove lttng-modules-dkms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lttng-modules-dkms
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lttng-modules-dkms
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lttng-modules-dkms
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.