How To Install python3-ptrace on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ptrace
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-ptrace
python3-ptrace is:
This package provides Python bindings for the ptrace library. It allows controlling, debugging, or modifying processes using the ptrace syscall.
Features:
- High level Python object API
- Able to control multiple processes: catch fork events
- Read/write bytes to arbitrary addresses
- Execution step by step using ptrace_singlestep() or hardware int 3
- Can use distorm disassembler
- Dump registers, memory mappings, stack, etc.
- Syscall tracer and parser (strace command)
This package provides the ptrace Python module for Python 3.x.
There are three methods to install python3-ptrace
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-ptrace 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-ptrace
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-ptrace
Install python3-ptrace Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-ptrace
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-ptrace
Install python3-ptrace 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-ptrace
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-ptrace
How To Uninstall python3-ptrace on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-ptrace
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-ptrace
Uninstall python3-ptrace And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-ptrace
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-ptrace
Remove python3-ptrace Configurations and Data
To remove python3-ptrace
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-ptrace
Remove python3-ptrace configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-ptrace
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-ptrace
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ptrace
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.