How To Install python3-lttng on Debian 10

Learn how to install python3-lttng on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python3-lttng is LTTng control and utility Python bindings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-lttng on Debian 10.

What is python3-lttng

python3-lttng 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 Python bindings to lttng.

There are three methods to install python3-lttng on Debian 10. 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-lttng 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-lttng using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-lttng

Install python3-lttng Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-lttng using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-lttng

Install python3-lttng 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-lttng using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-lttng

How To Uninstall python3-lttng on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python3-lttng package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-lttng

Uninstall python3-lttng And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-lttng and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-lttng

Remove python3-lttng Configurations and Data

To remove python3-lttng configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-lttng

Remove python3-lttng configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-lttng configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-lttng

Dependencies

python3-lttng have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-lttng package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.