How To Install systemtap-client on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-client on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is systemtap-client
systemtap-client is:
This package contains client for SystemTap compile server. It can be used to compile probes on a remote machine running systemtap-server. This client can be run on a machine without full kernel debug information and development environment required for ‘systemtap’ package.
If you only want to compile systemtap probes locally just install ‘systemtap’ package.
SystemTap provides infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system.
There are three methods to install systemtap-client 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 systemtap-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install systemtap-client using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install systemtap-client
Install systemtap-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install systemtap-client using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install systemtap-client
Install systemtap-client 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 systemtap-client using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install systemtap-client
How To Uninstall systemtap-client on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the systemtap-client package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove systemtap-client
Uninstall systemtap-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall systemtap-client and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove systemtap-client
Remove systemtap-client Configurations and Data
To remove systemtap-client configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge systemtap-client
Remove systemtap-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove systemtap-client configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge systemtap-client
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-client package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
