How To Install systemtap-server on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-server on Debian 12.
What is systemtap-server
systemtap-server is:
This package contains compile server for SystemTap. It can be used together with systemtap client to compile probes on a remote machine. Probes will be compiled by the server on request of remote clients.
SystemTap provides infrastructure to simplify the gathering of information about the running Linux system.
There are three methods to install systemtap-server on Debian 12. 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-server 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-server using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install systemtap-server
Install systemtap-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install systemtap-server using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install systemtap-server
Install systemtap-server 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 systemtap-server using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install systemtap-server
How To Uninstall systemtap-server on Debian 12
To uninstall only the systemtap-server package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove systemtap-server
Uninstall systemtap-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall systemtap-server and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove systemtap-server
Remove systemtap-server Configurations and Data
To remove systemtap-server configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge systemtap-server
Remove systemtap-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove systemtap-server configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge systemtap-server
Dependencies
systemtap-server have the following dependencies:
- libnss3-tools
- avahi-utils
- unzip
- zip
- systemtap
- systemtap-client
- libavahi-client3
- libavahi-common3
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libnspr4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install systemtap-server package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
