How To Install systemtap-client on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-client
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 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 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-client
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.