How To Install python3-bpfcc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-bpfcc
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-bpfcc
python3-bpfcc is:
BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs
It makes use of extended BPF (Berkeley Package Filter) and provides tools for BPF based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring and more
This package provides the Python 3 bindings
There are three methods to install python3-bpfcc
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 python3-bpfcc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-bpfcc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-bpfcc
Install python3-bpfcc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-bpfcc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-bpfcc
Install python3-bpfcc 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 python3-bpfcc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-bpfcc
How To Uninstall python3-bpfcc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-bpfcc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-bpfcc
Uninstall python3-bpfcc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-bpfcc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-bpfcc
Remove python3-bpfcc Configurations and Data
To remove python3-bpfcc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-bpfcc
Remove python3-bpfcc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-bpfcc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-bpfcc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-bpfcc
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.